The Dictionary.com iPhone app defines blight as “any cause of impairment, destruction, ruin or frustration” and “the state or result of being blighted or deteriorated; dilapidation; decay.”
But in Adams County, defining something like blight is seldom as simple as looking it up in the dictionary.
The property behind be in this week’s Mapping Mark Walters installment is the topic of fervent discussion for one township that is wrestling with the definition of blight and how it applies to rural areas.
Can you identify the property’s vicinity?