Business View Civil & Municipal l November 2022

103 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 9 to townhomes and single-family attached homes for young families. We have single- family homes in very nice neighborhoods for the more traditional family. We have 55-plus communities, senior communities, convalescent care homes and senior care facilities, all within our community. We have affordable housing or workforce housing as well. Having that broad diversity of housing types within one community is certainly unique.” The township continues to see growth in this area, with McLucas reporting that there are several developments seeking build-out approvals, some which were originally started in the early 2000’s. “I will say our multi-family housing has operated under a much lesser timeline. What we have built now was approved in 2018/2019. They are now fully built, fully occupied. That was about 220 units within the past two and a half years,” he adds. Dover Township is currently looking at a Planned Residential Ordinance which would allow for a mixed-use development, which McLucas says would “further spur the live, work, play, within one community.” Business attraction is a priority in Dover Township, where an Industrial Commercial Development Committee (ICDC) was formed several years ago. Brian Caden, ICDC Chairman relays that the committee recently met with the Realtors Association of York to talk about the changing demographics in the area and what is attracting businesses in an effort to tailor future plans for Dover in the right direction. He says, “We are regularly looking at the parcels that are for sale, and as a committee, choosing which ones we consider to be a priority. As a committee, we also come up with what we would like to see as far as businesses coming to Dover. Then we tailor that parcel and advertise it for businesses to come, knowing that it is something that the community needs and wants. I think we’ve done a really good job of picking those priority parcels, figuring out what those demographics would look like, and then advertising.” DOVER TOWNSHI P 38 North Duke Street | York, PA 17401 www.csdavidson.com Dover Township’s Engineer of Record since 1995 Providing creative solutions through applying comprehensive planning and facilitating developer cooperation in order to achieve Township goals. Dover Township Carousel Building