Although Chester County is building half as much new housing as it did in the 1980s and 1990s, it's still delivering more than counterparts like Bucks and Delaware counties.
Philadelphia’s suburban counties aren’t building housing like they used to, but a couple do more than the rest.
“A big driver of suburban development is the availability of suitable land,” said Brian O’Leary, Chester County’s planning commissioner. “Is the zoning in place that makes sense for a denser development? Is there access to sewer and water infrastructure in particular? There’s not as much suitable land available as there was in the ‘80s or ‘90s.”O’Leary also noted that as population has increased, there are more residents to oppose new development.
“For me, personally, as much as I respect landowners’ rights, what Toll Brothers wanted to come in and do was just so over the top for an area that was already way oversaturated with housing,” said Mindy Rhodes, an activist who helped organize the opposition. “People in the suburbs are waking up, realizing how much open space is just dwindling before their very eyeballs.”Rhodes says there’s plenty of new housing going up, and it’s in better places, in her opinion.
O’Leary agreed that few large tracts of developable land like Crebilly Farms are left. That’s why Chester County’s planning commission is contemplating actions like incentivizing affordable housing if developers are given permission to build more densely or encouraging accessory dwelling units — think grandma flats or carriage houses — in large homes or on sprawling single-family lots.
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