Borough Amends Height Ordinance
West Chester Borough Council amends the height ordinance to eliminate the possibility of a nine-story building being built in the town center.
The West Chester Borough Council voted to change the borough’s height ordinance on Wednesday limiting buildings in the town center to 45 feet by right and 60 feet by special exception. The ordinance also includes a new zoning designation named “commercial services” that would allow buildings of 75 feet by special exception. “We also included supplemental design guidelines so that new buildings stick with the historical character of our town,” said council member Jordan Norley. The new “Commercial Services District” stretches along the Gay and Market Streets corridor between North Franklin and North Bolmar Streets. Borough Council began the process to change the height ordinance last September after developer Eli Kahn purchased several …
Andrew
5:30 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013
thank you! Someone with a brain... Mr. Kahn should get a good lawyer a build whatever he wants. Of course anything new is going to look different at first. It wasn't there before..WHAT A SHOCK! You think the developers of the Farmers and Mechanics building put up with this sh*t in 1908? I don't think so. West Chester is very lucky developers want to build in the town. Other towns wish they had … more ›