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Article: Township opposes stadium rezoning; E. Hempfield asks Manheim Township to reject request
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- March 19, 2002
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East Hempfield Township supervisors have told the Manheim Township
commissioners that rezoning 100 acres on Harrisburg Pike for a Target
store and baseball stadium would represent "a step backward on
boundary sensitive activities."
In a three-page letter dated March 7 and addressed to Don Smith,
president of the Manheim Township board, the East Hempfield
supervisors "strongly recommend" the commissioners reject a request
to rezone the land from industrial to commercial.
"The impact of the proposed rezoning from industrial to commercial
will ... increase the potential for adverse impacts to East Hempfield
Township as well as the City of Lancaster and Lancaster Township, and
be a step backward ...