Article: E. Hempfield will consider 'livable community' plan ; Neighborhood along Harrisburg Pike would feature smaller lot sizes, mixed types of housing. Proposal is first-of-its-kind in township.

It would be East Hempfield Township's first so-called "livable community."

And developers of the proposed community along Harrisburg Pike will present plans next week for a village offering things like smaller lot sizes, mixed housing types, sidewalks, trees and front porches.

Charter Homes Building Co. of Manheim Township is proposing the still-unnamed neighborhood at a 63-acre site along Harrisburg Pike, at the southeast corner of the Harrisburg Pike/Sylvan Road intersection and across from Ye Old Mill Road.

It also is near Golden Meadows Swim Club and just west of Village Grande, a proposed 55-and-older residential community along Harrisburg Pike.

To make the livable community happen, the ...

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