What is the LDR Plan?
Early in 1998, The Lancaster Campaign contracted with LDR International, Inc. to create a plan to “stimulate the economic revitalization of the City of Lancaster by developing a community supported vision and action agenda”. The process involved community participation, economic and market research, urban design and planning analysis, traffic and transportation assessment, strategic planning and packaging a final product. The end result is a plan for the City titled Lancaster’s Economic Development Action Agenda, commonly referred to as the LDR Plan. The plan focuses on three important areas of the city: North and South Prince Streets, Downtown, and South Duke Street. Nearly 60 projects and strategies were identified as important. This list was reduced to seventeen strategies, some of which include one or more projects. In 2002, an Executive Summary LDR Update was released by The Campaign that outlined the strategies in the LDR Plan and the progress to date since the plan’s adoption.
