David J. Tshudy Quoted in PennLive Article, 'Susquehanna Township Planning Commission Members to Vartan: 'No Sheetz''
David J. Tshudy, of counsel in the Real Estate Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton and resident in the Harrisburg office, was quoted in the August 24, 2015 PennLive article, "Susquehanna Township Planning Commission Members to Vartan: 'No Sheetz.'"
The draft ordinance Vartan Group expects to present would put an overlay on the business-office-residential zoning now covering the 58-acre parcel, said David Tshudy, Vartan's counsel.
The property's developer could either apply traditional BOR zoning or follow the overlay, which would ease some BOR restrictions while imposing agreed-to standards of building architecture, dimensions, and other factors, Tshudy said.
"It would be an all-or-nothing thing," he said.
Simply expanding BOR to allow convenience stores and hotels without imposing design standards would not promote "a more attractive and sustainable development," Tshudy said.
"You can make for a more attractive development if you pay attention to how buildings relate to other buildings, and how buildings relate to the streets," he said. "You don't achieve those results by merely adding to the number of uses allowed in the BOR."
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