The Lancaster County Board of Commissionersâ planning is sometimes stellar, as is evidenced in the support of the Enola Low Grade Trail, the Susquehanna River Trail and the Public Safety Training Center. What is lacking in their vision, in my view, is the proposed location of a new Lancaster County prison.
There is no doubt there is a need for a new prison and, as some have expressed, Lancaster city will reap the benefits of redevelopment at the current site of the county prison.
What I believe is at odds with good planning principles is to take an undeveloped property â currently used for farming â that is surrounded by water on three sides and turn it into a prison site.