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Lancaster County Comprehensive Plan

2030 Housing Element Update 
 
 

Vision: An adequate supply and diversity of housing opportunities will be available in Lancaster County to give current and future residents greater choice in housing type and tenure (rental and ownership), location and price, for a place to call home

                                                                                                       

Goals, Objectives & Strategies:

To achieve this Vision, the Housing Steering Committee established Seven Goals, Twenty Objectives, and Ninety-Four Strategies centered around the following Four Key Themes.

 

 Four Key Themes.
  • Leadership and Cooperation
  • Public Education and Awareness
  • Smart Growth Policies and Tools to expand housing type and affordability.
  • Inclusionary Housing Tools and Programs to specifically help households of below-market and moderate income. 

 

   Key Goals:
 1. 
 
Leadership at all levels will work cooperatively to implement the Vision contained in Choices. 
 2. 
 
Educational Programs will be pursued to help facilitate an understanding among all       stakeholders of the goals, objectives and strategies contained in Choices.
 3. 
 
Smart Growth planning and zoning tools will be promoted to expand housing choice and affordability for current and future residents.
 4. 
 
Older neighborhoods (urban and village) will be reinvigorated through revitalization
strategies that will help expand housing choice through infill, adaptive reuse, mixed use and other initiatives.
   5.  
 
Communities in general will be strengthened as viable places to live, work, learn and   play.
     6. 
 
Special attention will be given to below market and moderate-income households through the promotion of inclusionary housing tools and other regulatory incentives.
 7.
 
Other affordability programs will also be encouraged to help below market income and moderate-income households achieve safe and affordable housing.  

    

    

       

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