Co-worker who lives in the Leola area hands me a photocopied flier this morning, one apparently being circulated around the East Lampeter Township area regarding Keystone Custom Homes’ plan to build some 405 homes and some businesses on 49 acres on the south side of Route 23, between Hartman Station and Hornig roads. The flyer - signed by Fred Daum, who has consistently opposed development in this part of eastern Lancaster County - lists all the bad things that would happen were such “dense” development permitted, and then says this:

This jamming of new homes into a small rural area is called “TND,” Traditional Neighborhood Development and East Hempfield residents turned out in massive numbers to keep their area from being disrupted by such unneeded development.

And then a plea for people to turn out at the township meeting last night. Nothing in this morning’s paper to determine whether they did or didn’t. But the point is that East Hempfield has become a rallying cry for those who would defeat this type of high-density anywhere in the county; East Hempfield turned back those greedy developers and haughty government planners - and you can too!

This populist backlash against the path specifically selected by those tasked with planning for the future of Lancaster County represents the end of that plan. The TND, I think, is dead - in both name and concept.