Gettysburg Planning Director John Whitmore says zoning update encourages housing and clarity

Gettysburg Planning Director John Whitmore says zoning update encourages housing and clarity

In a recent interview, Gettysburg Borough Planning John Whitmore said the borough’s recently adopted rezoning ordinance is best understood as a technical but necessary modernization—one intended to make development fairer, clearer, and more consistent with Gettysburg’s long-term vision. “We received well over 200 individual comments relating to everything from the districts and the supplemental regulations to the specific purposes of the ordinan…