Lecturer To Discuss Open Spaces And
WILKES-BARRE (Luzerne
Co.) The rural character and
natural landscapes that attract
many home buyers to townships is
being lost.
This is because most townships
adopt ordinances whose principal
purpose is to set rules for the or
derly conversion of natural lands
into developed properties.
In these communities, every
acre of buildable land is zoned to
become houselots and streets,
strip malls, or office parks. It may
take 10-20 years, but parcel by
parcel, townships that have relied
on conventional zoning have
found that they ultimately become
blanketed with wall-to-wall devel
opment.
Fortunately, practical alterna
tives to conventional zoning do in
fact exist, and one of the principal
techniques for conserving natural
lands is the subject of an upcom
ing lecture, “A Greener Vision for
Community Growth; Preserving
Community Open Space through
Conservation Development De
sign.”
On Sept 11, award winning au
thor, lecturer and rural town plan
ner Mr. Randall Arendt of Natural
Lands Tract Inc. will be leading a
group of local officials, planners,
builders, and conservationists
through what is being called con
servation or open space subdivi
sion design.
This free lecture is to be held in
the Quiet Lounge of the Study
Learning Center at Penn State
Worthington Campus in Dunmore
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If you are a municipal official,
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citizen interested in preserving
open spaces and the rural charac
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ADADC Announces
Farm/Progress
Days Winners
SYRACUSE, N.Y. To
inform dairy producers about the
benefits of dairy promotion, the
American Dairy Association and
Dairy Council, Inc. (ADADC)
awarded two $lOO feed store gift
certificates and 18 packages of
dairy promotional items to 20
lucky dairy farmers at two recent
farm shows; • Empire Farm Days,
Aug. 6-8, Seneca Falls. New
York; • Ag Progress Days, Aug.
13-15, State College, Pennsylva
nia. To register for the prizes,
dairy producers watched
ADADC’s annual meeting video
and read its educational display to
collect answers to questions about
ADADC’s role in increasing milk
consumption. Through the ques
tions, participants learned the
following:
• ADADC’s goal is to generate
Commission at (717) 963-6400.
Without controversial “down
zoning,” the same number of
homes can be built in a less land
consumptive manner, allowing the
balance of the property to be per
manently protected and added to
an interconnected network of
green spaces and green corridors
criss-crocsing one’s township or
county.
The density-neutral approach of
$900,000 worth of publicity about
milk and dairy products in 1996.
• Using the retailers dairy case
records, ADADC designs a layout
of the most profitable dairy case.
Once retailers reset their dairy
case using ADADC’s layout, milk
sales increase an average of 4%.
• ADADC’s staff places nutri
tion education programs in
schools that teach children that
dairy products are good nutritious
snacks. ADADC’s goal is to pro
vide the program to 40% of teach
ers in NY, NJ, and PA.
Winning the $lOO at their local
feed store was Matt Deniiston
from Dryden, NY and Loretta
Aurard from Middleburg, Pen
nsylvania. The nine winners of the
dairy promotional prize packages
at Empire Farm Days included: •
April Adams, Phelps, NY; • Jen
nifer Beightol, Falconer, NY; •
Violet Biennan, Seymour, CT; •
Susan DeMey, Hannibal, NY; •
Ed Dooly, Tully, NY: • Ralph
Eggleston, Cooperstown, NY; •
Janet Kirsch, Varysburg, NY; •
Jeanette Marvin, Farmington, NY;
• Allison Schonfeld, King Ferry.
NY.
The nine winners of the dairy
promotional prize packages at Ag
Progress Days included: • Carolyn
Calhoun, Glen Rock, PA; • Calvin
Click, Quarryville, PA; • Gro-lan
Farms, Shippensburg, PA; • Gina
Groover, Canton, PA; • Lisa
Hamilton, Springboro, PA; • Joan
Keith, Entriken, PA; • Rhonda
Laudenslager, Halifax, PA; • Bar
bara O’Dell, Westtown, NY; •
Pamela Snook, Loganton, PA.
H
Phil Durst Extension Agent Montour County
Residential Development
conservation development design
respects private property rights
and the ability of developers to
create homes for an expanding
population, accommodating new
comers without unduly impacting
the remaining natural areas that
make our communities such spe
cial places in which to live, work
and recreate.
In so doing, it makes everyone a
winner the homeowner, who
enjoys the open space next to his
or her property and the sense of
community that is created; the de
veloper, who benefits from the en
hanced market value that a well
planned open space design often
brings; and the township, which is
able to preserve some open space
while still accommodating devel
opment and growth.
Conventional approaches to
subdivision developmei 1 pro
duces nothing mote than houselots
and streets. Eventually a township
will be a blanket of wall-to-wall
subdivisions.
Alternative methods of design
ing developments for the same
overall density while also preserv
ing SO percent or more of the site
are not difficult to master, and cre
ate more attractive and pleasing
living environments that sell more
easily and appreciate faster than
conventional “houselot-and
street” developments.
The significant land conserva
tion achievable through “open
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' auct
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esfete of Ben T. Hyser, Household items and
located along Messersmith antiques, tools, farm equip-
Rd., off rt. 616 S. of York. ment. George Qibney,
New Salem take Gladfelter auct
“MUN is a powerful tool to evaluate the
ration, as eaten. It allows you to get a look
at what is happening in the rumen. And
what happens in there affects milk
production, body condition, health and even
conception rates.
I believe that every dairy farmer can benefit
from MUN testing. Don’t delay, order it at
your next test. The stakes are 100 high to
ignore it”
space development design”
should help smooth the local re
view and approval process, by re
sponding to environmental con
cerns such as protecting water
quality and wildlife habitat before
,they are raised by officials or the
public.
Open space subdivisions are
simply better places to live.
At present, only golf course de
velopments offer comparable
amounts of open space. Several
studies are showing that four out
of five sales are to non-golfers
who buy for park-like views of
open space, views that can com
mand a premium in a home’s ini
tial sale price and its resale value.
This lecture is sponsored by the
Northeast Pennsylvania Com
munity Tree Association and Penn
State Cooperative Extension, in
cooperation with the Lackawanna
County Regional Planning Com
mission, DCNR, Natural Lands
Trust, the Pennsylvania Urban &
Community Forestry Conned, the
Lackawanna River Corridor Asso
ciation, Lackawanna County Con
servation District, and the U.S.
EPA.
This project is supported by
funds provided by the USDA For
est Service, Northeastern Areas,
State and Private Forestry and
with the assistance of the Morris
Arboretum of the University of
Pennsylvania and the Pennsylva
nia Bureau of Forestry.
Station Rd. or Tunnel Hill
Rd. to Messersmith Rd.
next to Ness Taxidermy.
Charles L. Wehrfy & Son,
auct
SAT. SEPT. 7-9 AM Fourth