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Town putting the brakes on housing development.
Byline: Sandra Tan
Feb. 20--For the past few decades, the Town of Lancaster has been a boom town. Since the late 1970s, about 5,300 new homes have either been built or approved for construction.
Correspondingly, the strain on water, sewers and town roads has grown, and an increasing number of residents have become aggressively antagonistic toward housing growth.
As a result, some town leaders have become reluctant to fast-track more new construction. The last two large-scale subdivisions proposed in Lancaster have met with controversy.
"It is vastly more difficult to do a subdivision today than it was 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 ...
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