[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Shenandoah Woods Naval housing (PA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Shenandoah Woods Officially Labeled Blighted Area

The Bucks County and Warminster planning committees agreed to the  
designation after reviewing documentation of the neighborhood's  
deteriorating condition.

By James Boyle
Warminster Patch (PA)
August 10, 2011

The Bucks County and Warminster planning commission agreed last week  
to officially identify Shenandoah Woods as a blighted area and  
certified the former military housing neighborhood to the Bucks  
County Redevelopment Authority (BCRDA) as a redevelopment area.

The decision came following review of evidence that Shenandoah Woods  
met several of the criteria necessary to earn the blighted label,  
including inadequate planning of the area, faulty street and lot  
layout and economically or socially undesirable land use.

Warminster Township solicitor Michael Savona described the  
designation as the first of many steps toward redeveloping the 199  
vacated residential units into a new neighborhood with 113 single and  
twin homes. The blighted label will help lower the value of the area  
when the BCRDA makes its bid for purchase from the Navy.


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For the entire article, see
http://warminster.patch.com/articles/shenandoah-woods-officially- 
labeled-blighted-area

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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