“Another shop center eyed for Fruitville.”

This was always in the cards. I’m sure the objections will be the familiar ones - what do we need another shopping center for! Save farmland! But this piece of property is more amenable to large-scale commercial development than virtually any other site in Lancaster County - bordering Route 30, right next to the on- and off-ramps, and directly across the street from an existing shopping center.

Again, if you’re talking “smart growth,” the idea is that this type of project should go here - within the urban growth boundary - so it doesn’t go “there,” out in the hinterlands. From a planning perspective, from a logical perspective - whatever noises we might make about “not needing” additional retail, this makes some sense. I don’t for one moment expect that to dull the opposition, though.