Gettysburg Planning Chair Charles Strauss regrets building height decision, but says zoning overhaul strengthens neighborhoods

Gettysburg Planning Chair Charles Strauss regrets building height decision, but says zoning overhaul strengthens neighborhoods

Gettysburg Planning Commission Chair Charles Strauss said the borough’s newly adopted zoning ordinance represents a long-overdue effort to protect residential neighborhoods, simplify decades of amendments, and provide clearer guidance for future development. “One idea was to protect the residential districts,” Strauss said. “We did some work to remove uses in the R-1 and the R-2 that would be more commercial than residential.” Strauss pointed to…