Charlestown’s ballot question on the application to open space and farmland preservation efforts of a one-half of one percent increase in residents’ earned income tax passed handily, by a margin of over three to one.

An unofficial tally reported late Tuesday evening recorded 1185 votes in favor of the measure, or 78.2% of total votes cast, with 259 against.
As of this posting, however, those figures had not yet been confirmed by Chester County Voter Services.

David Greer, chair of the volunteer group Charlestown Citizens for Open Space, considered the vote “a real testimony to the Township’s voters. They’re telling the Board of Supervisors that they like the Board’s balanced approach to development, that they like living here and want to preserve what we have.”

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G.E. “Skip” Lawrence