How Can Sussex County Plan for Future Growth?
How can Sussex County, Delaware, begin to plan for a projected growth of almost 90,000 residents in the next 25 years and still maintain the great beaches, small-town living, low taxes, and other attributes that current residents associate with a high quality of life? That’s the focus of the seminar “Town and Regional Planning to Insure Livability and Profitability,” set for Wednesday, May 26, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., at the Virden Conference Center at the University of Delaware’s Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes. The seminar is sponsored by the University of Delaware Sea Grant College Program, the Greater Lewes Foundation, Delaware Coastal Programs, the City of Lewes, Sussex County Council, and the American Institute of Architects – Delaware Chapter. “In recent years, Sussex Countians have witnessed a pattern of low-density, single-use growth that has contributed to a loss of farmland, traffic congestion, and natural habitat degradation that, if unchecked, will impact the communities
