This is bad thinking, while the tax rolls increase, so does expendature, more families move in, more students to educate, more buildings or additions to be built inorder to educate those students, more roads to maintain, more police required to keep order more more more, except money coming in.
Development is only good for the developer, everyone else loses.

I used to be in the same school of thought. The best development to help the school districts out is commercial and industrial development, not residential. But we all know how few companies are moving into Pennsylvania these days and there is only so much commercial development an area can support or the residents/local government wants.

Mt Joy has that as well, look at all the businesses that have gone up on the Main Street right outside of town. I think they just completed 2 new buildings and are working on a Sonic there next, plus they have the industrial park thats not completely full yet either.

So instead we take in new residents like crazy and pave over the farm land that we should use to feed ourselves?

Lysol,

Sadly most of what you've seen on that of Mount Joy doesn't lie in Mount Joy Borough or East Donegal Township, it is in Rapho Township.

Solitary,

I am not encouraging paving over farmland to make for housing developments. If anything, industrial development creates job to support the local economy, not stress it like housing developments.