PROGRAMMING AREAS
Balanced Use of Natural Resources
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...
Conventional cost of community services studies need to be used with caution - and they are often misused. Such studies are based on averages across multiple land uses and represent a snapshot at one point in time. Results generally cannot be used to estimate the costs or revenues of land use change, or of residential development (T. Kelsey, Penn State).
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