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Lancaster's Vision?
The town board - turn Lancaster into another paved over, big box wasteland.
The residents - fight to keep Lancasters unique character.
Where does the village fit in? The village is unique in that it still retains it's character. With the exception of a drug store chain, there are no Mcapplebeethankgoditswalmartvanilla chain stores. The restaurants and businesses are locally owned and operated and care about their customers. While the state imposed the unnecessary uglification of Broadway, the existing architecture mitigated the ugly. On the other hand, the village just completed a streetscape on Central Avenue that harmonizes with the architecture.
There are very few neighborhoods in the village where the houses fell off the end of the corporate assembly line. After a night out on the town, the enibriated can still identify their houses.
Unfortunately, the masturbation plan recently approved for this area includes the possibility densifying a fully developed village.
What's the Village's vision. Mostly, leave us alone, we're doing just fine, thank you.
) is that the old timers in Lancaster don't want anything to change. They'd prefer to remain a largely rural area... and that if the long standing village business(es) close up, they'd rather not replace them with something new. In other words: Either status quo or nothing!
