Much ado about "NOTHING"?
The answer is NEITHER, when it's done behind closed doors.
Columbia's decision to ban former employee from its property may be 'unconstitutional' [Lancaster Watchdog]
Chris Vera [Columbia Spy file photo] The following information is excerpted from a December 6, 2025 LNP Watchdog article by LNP | LancasterOnline reporter Jade Campos. Still reeling from an abrupt firing from his role as head of the Columbia Market House in March, Chris Vera was surprised to get a letter in the mail from a Columbia Borough attorney two weeks later telling him he was banned indefinitely from borough property. The letter gave no reason for the ban. Nine months later, Vera, who has served as president of the Columbia Historic Preservation Society for more than a decade and has helped with the borough’s comprehensive plan, is still banned from borough property. He believes the ban includes borough parks, which is part of the reason he moved his annual Albatwitch Day festival, which celebrates the myth of a local cryptid, to Wrightsville. Vera said he’s not sure why the borough went to such lengths to keep him away from public spaces given his termination from the borough s...
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We are not the morality police. At least this is a business that brings in revenue and theoretically pays taxes.
Maybe our current TPTB need to look at ways to generate revenue rather than constantly looking to homeowners and businesses to fund their own agendas.
Who knows? Maybe our TPTB can have a fundraiser - Would anyone pay to see them in pasties and a thong?
Our powers-that-be must stop being hostile towards businesses, even those they don't like.
Additionally, this business does not bring the kind of "customers" our town would like to see. Statistically, customers of these businesses require more arrests then other businesses which will cost all residents more money.
And you're right - the board upheld the code, but don't they have the authority to render a decision based on the merits and particulars of each case?
Also, if their decision is based on code, why did they allow a hearing where residents voiced their objections on moral grounds? Is the board attempting to enforce morality while hiding behind a cloak of legality?
Anyway the Drive In Site is going up for auction next week and even though it is out of the boro; I sure hope someone has some cash and some dreams will do something here to get something decent going that would revitalize this area - like was mentioned before- a driving range or a new bowling alley or miniature golf or whatever. And what is this I hear that Sheetz has bought the area right off the Prospect Rd exit that was going to become a Round the Clock diner before they backed out a few years back? I hear it is going to be a big project.
I share your hopes for the drive-in site, but I have a bad feeling it'll become a strip mall - as if we need another one.
What's the latest on the Prospect Road site? I'd heard something about a Sheetz but haven't heard anything since.