No, not us saying this about something Ardmore...this is a timely development article from Daylesford area (next to Paoli)

...sigh...they're doing "Transit Oriented Developement" or "MUST"....so we thought we'd pop it up...we've heard whispers of eminent domain with this project because it requires acquisition of private properties...hope it doesn't come to that...we have enough condos and other forms of development...Here's a novel idea: would it be so crazy to just say "No" to development for a while? You all watch, as this neighborhood will get tagged as "NIMBY" because they choose not to want to be overrun by development- Ardmore has got the T-shirt on this one already, unfortunately. Why is it that all developers seem to be able to manage is plan after plan to turn SUBurban URBAN? They all suffer from these delusions of non original thoughts, don't they? What is so hard to grasp about the simple concept if we all wanted to live in the city, we would?

Proposed Daylesford development stirs unrest
By: Noelle Via 08/31/2006

Many residents living near the Daylesford train station in Paoli have responded to the potential transit-oriented development by banding together against it.

The Daylesford Neighborhood Association formed while ARCWheeler, the development company handling the project, held private meetings with residents who lived within 700 feet and those residents whose homes ARCWheeler was interested in acquiring.

According to the association's spokesperson, Franc Keiser, the organization has 100 members who live on roads in the general area of the development, which proposes to turn 12 properties on 13 acres into 162 townhouses and condos in an area south of Lancaster Avenue, west to Longcorse Lane, south to Pennsylvania Avenue and east near Glenn Avenue.

The development, designed by Comcast Tower's creator, Robert A.M. Stern, would include some small commercial properties along Lancaster Avenue, with two or three stories of condos above the stores. The area of Daylesford is currently a R1 low-density residential district and would have to be rezoned for the project to move forward.
The association's two major issues are density and zoning.
"Why would anyone consider rezoning?" questioned Keiser. "We need to educate ourselves and band together to figure out what our options are."

Keiser said the neighbors are concerned about the changes that would come about due to increased density such as traffic, noise, lights and more.

"Our position is that no rezoning should take place," said Keiser. "There's no advantage to the neighborhood or the township to rezone this environment.

"We think it's a nice project; it's just the wrong place."
Keiser said the residents don't want to be perceived as unprogressive.

"We're not against change," he said, but he said the residents feel the development -- which he admitted has an impressive design by a well-known architect -- would be more suited in a more densely populated area such as the Paoli train station. The Tredyffrin Planning Commission is working through zoning drafts for the Paoli Core Business District, a transit-oriented district south of the R5 railroad tracks that runs from Willistown to Route 252.