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from the article (snip): As Commissioner Simpson notes, the Deisley property isn't the only one guaranteed to generate controversy: Aaron Hess, owner of the farm across from Red Rose Commons, passed away last year. The land is zoned R-3, permitting high-density residential development. No proposals have come in yet, Simpson said. But she understands the property owners "are inundated with proposals from developers based all over the U.S.
Oh great .... another MT farm tract being inundated with proposals from developers from all over the country.
What Commissioner Simpson doesn't realize (or she does realize but doesn't care) is that big developers flock to municipalities are "developer friendly". They want to make big money quick, and move on. These predatory big developers learn where the development friendly communities are located and they do what they do best, develop! And if the leaders of a community put up resistance and roadblocks that slow down development, they move on quickly and find friendlier leaders in communities like Manheim Township.
Smart and aggressive developers, like High Development, go even one step further. They encourage their upper management to move into and establish residences in development friendly communities and ask them to get involved in local volunteer committees working on community projects that require big expensive public buildings. Like libraries.
Carol Simpson has appointed two current High Development Vice Presidents to the new MT library committee, and various other construction trade executives to other behind the scenes planning committees.
No one in Manheim Township should be surprised that there has been an explosion of big developments with many more in the planning stages since Commissioner Simpson and her ardent supporter Commissioner Larry Downing took office.
The clear question for MT voters this November will be simple; do you want fast-paced development with resultant traffic jams continued? Then stick with Simpson and Downing. If slower development is desired with more emphasis on roadways and infrastructure, vote only for farmer Nelson Rohrer. Rohrer will tip the current 3/2 balance on the MT Board of Commissioners back in favor of sanity.
