COLUMBIA SPY

Notices (as shown above) have been posted downtown announcing a public meeting to be held by Columbia Borough Council on December 16 to consider rezoning several blocks of the downtown from residential to downtown commercial. Currently, the notices are posted from 2nd Street to 5th Street as well as on several intersecting streets.  According to the notice, public comments can be submitted to the Lancaster County Planning Commission. A public meeting of the commission will be held November 25 at 2:30 p.m. at 150 North Queen Street, Lancaster. The December 16 meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the District Administration Center, 200 North 5th Street, Columbia. As of this posting, the notice does not appear on the Columbia Borough website and Facebook page and is not advertised at Lancaster Online.

Download the council packet  HERE . Download supplemental packet items  HERE .

This week's photos of Columbia . . .  What's this? Girls skateboarding in defiance of the regulations? The regulations (of which there are many) Good thing Waterways Conservation Officer Jeff Schmidt was there to keep them on the straight and narrow.  The many-windowed Saint Peter Apartments  Tonight there's gonna be a  Jailbreak .  Autumn is rapidly leafing us.  Another scarf bombing  What have they done to our lot at 4th & Locust?  Back at work Still trying Here's one on the outside  An escort vehicle announcing an oversize load that isn't there.  Here are the credentials.  They were checking clearances under traffic lights and elsewhere on Route 462. Here's a wide load, not necessarily oversize.  The taxes are too damn high!  Half moon, waxing  The underside of a warthog RGA has entered a bid of $13,275 in resp...

[Source: Lancaster County Board of Elections]

Download the council packet  HERE .