LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER-JOURNAL EDITORIAL: …Downingtown officials see a bright opportunity, however, in the form of a proposed 20-acre, 300-home development, complete with 20,000 square feet of retail space. The developers also would mitigate industrial pollution at the site, which formerly was a landfill. The new construction would pump into the borough budget an estimated $100,000 in real estate taxes alone.
The problem? All of this would be built on what is now a borough park.
The idea to develop half of Kardon Park goes back 20 years, and opposition to it is almost as old. In the latest twist, a county judge last month cleared the borough to sell part of the park to the developers… (more)
