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The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
The Pennsylvania State University
7 Armsby Building, University Park PA 16802-5602
814/863-4656(phone); 814/863-0586(fax)
Please send questions and comments to:
nercrd@psu.edu

Land Use in the Northeast US:

Ten Things Members of Every Rural
Community Need to Know About Land Use...

Property rights are granted to individuals by the community in which they reside. These rights are a creation of the legal process used to resolve land use disputes, and hence subject to change. In this context, experts are following the recent US Supreme Court Decision related to the Lake Tahoe area with intense interest (D. Bromley, U. of Wisconsin).

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development is located at the Pennsylvania State University and collaborates with land grant institutions in the northeast U.S.