LANCASTER TWP — Whether Josh Inman is permitted to have a dirt bike track on his property may not be up to his, or his neighbors', testimony.

It may not even be up to what, specifically, he wants to build on his Scott Ridge Road residential property.

Instead, it may hinge on how many uses a property is permitted to have.

Lancaster Township interim solicitor Neva Stotler on Wednesday bookended the second public hearing over Inman's application for conditional use approval for a motocross track at his residence by saying she is of the belief that Inman's conditional-use application is inappropriate.

Township ordinances, Stotler said at the beginning of Wednesday's hearing, allow for one principal use, which can be either a permitted or conditional use, on a lot.

“In other words, we have a lot at 595 Scott Ridge Road that has the principal use of a residential house, and so it doesn't really qualify for a conditional use,” she said. “That is to say that, most likely, it was improper to request a conditional use because you wouldn't ever be allowed to have two primary or permitted uses on the lot.”

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