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Daniel Klotz: Lancaster County population tops half a million

  • @maxtana · 9 months ago
    Wow, that's good and bad news. It's encouraging to see growth and prosperity in the area. Yet it's sad to see farmland gobbled up for strip malls and housing developments.
  • Wendy Edsall-Kerwin · 9 months ago
    I hope this doesn't mean that Lancaster will become the Montgomery County (MD) of PA. Living there the growth was insane! New condos and townhouses and monster houses and strip malls etc, were popping up all the time. Constant construction. Of course, I wouldn't mind in Lancaster had all the cool restaurants in MontCo...
  • Andy · 9 months ago
    Daniel - it might be nice to see a blog post on how much the Farmland Preservation Trust (www.lancasterfarmlandtrust.org) has done (and continues to do) to preserve Lancaster's farms and green spaces.