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Buy Local Saturday - 11/21/2011
While shoppers flock to big box stores in the suburbs on Black Friday, downtown York merchants also are hoping to draw some crowds.
York County has shining examples of best practices in stormwater management. The bus tour will highlight York County’s most innovative approaches with five different locations scheduled to be visited. At each site, participants will hear from local experts and the designers themselves on how the project was developed, the costs and the ongoing benefits of water quality in our community. The tour is the perfect opportunity for municipal officials, planners, developers and engineers to learn and share ideas on improving the quality of stormwater management in York County.
Last month, York County's unemployment rate inched up one-tenth of a percentage point to equal that of the state.
The York County Industrial Development Authority has hired a consulting firm to examine potential reuse of Harley-Davidson's 58-acre west campus.

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The York/Adams Regional Smart Growth Coalition is a unique and diverse group of organizations and individuals drawn together by a shared interest in the future direction of York and Adams Counties. The coalition’s mission is to shape public policy in order to preserve those elements that make our communities a great place to live.

The coalition’s goals include: encouraging environmentally sound development practices, sustaining healthy farms and abundant farmland, revitalizing our older urban areas, fostering economic growth that brings high quality jobs to our citizens, assuring reasonable housing costs that keep homeownership within reach of most households, providing an array of homeownership opportunities in our communities, and encouraging growth in areas where infrastructure currently exists.

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