—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 9, 1977
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single conversion of far
mland today are the dam
builders. Therefore, all
agencies should be required
to file their intentions with
the Pennsylvania State
Planning Board and show
cause why a proposed
facility or land use cannot be
served in a non-agricultural
area. Cost factors should be
of minor consideration. In
addition, a public hearing
should be required in the
community such taking is
proposed prior to filing for
Eminent Domain.
We in America should by
now have become very
conscious of the fact that all
our natural resources are of
a finite quantity. If not the
gasoline and heating fuel'
crisis of a few years ago,
then the nature gas crisis
and the resultant closing of
industrial plants very
recently should have made
us very mindful of the fact
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that the horn of plentv has a
bottom.
Pennsylvania is a vast
Commonwealth with a total
land area of 28.8 million
acres. However, only 8
million acres of this is
currently being farmed. On a
portion of this total,
agriculture under present
market conditions is only
marginally economically
feasible. This represents 25
per cent of the total land
area in agriculture leaving
75 per cent available for
other uses.
Certainly with such a large
portion of our state being
non-agricultural, we can be
more discreet in siting non
agricultural related land
uses.
To cite some large non
agricultural uses of the land,
permit me to cite a few that
come to mind. Some are
either constructed, under
construction or proposed,
but all are large users of
land. Muddy Creek Dam in
Lancaster County, Blue
March Dam in Berks
County. Also in Berks, the
proposed Mill Creek Power
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Plant and Reservoir near
Hamburg, 5000 to 6000 acrs,
in Schuylkill County, the
proposed Red Creek
Reservoir, in Lehigh County,
the Beltsville and Trexler
Dams.
Along with these dams are
attracted other non
agricultural land uses.
Residential, commercial and
industrial development
follows.
I have attended all land
use meetings in Berks
County and have yet to hear
any speaker mention the
biggest culprit, Eminent
Domain. All too frequently a
costs benefits factor is the
deciding factor. However,
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Who can say that the recent
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squandered our energy
resources. Let us not, with
the same abandon, squander
our most finite resource, the
land which ‘furnishes us
sustenance.
Let us be .mindful that only
11 per centof the land area of
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