Life in the Slow Lane
Are We Ready for the Silver Tsunami?
An aging population plus young people who aren’t buying single-family homes in suburbs could change the face of the Lehigh Valley.
Earlier this year, a Bucks County developer that had built large subdivisions with single-family homes in Upper Macungie switched gears. The Heritage Homes Group got approval from the township to change a 2007 proposal for the Dunbar Tract III of its Breinigsville development from a majority of single-family homes to mostly townhouses on Twin Ponds Road. If Mitchell Silver, president of the American Planning Association, is right, the Lehigh Valley is going to be seeing a lot more of these changes as our population ages and younger people opt for lifestyles that don’t include a big home in a suburban subdivision. At the behest of Sara Pandl, Lower Macungie’s planning director and chair of the Lehigh Valley section of the national …
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Andrew Wilt
11:15 am on Saturday, December 8, 2012
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