PROGRAMMING AREAS

   Community Capacity Building

   Regional Economic Development

   Entrepreneurship

   Local & Regional Food Systems

   Balanced Use of Natural Resources

   Other

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...

Some individuals claim that residential development is always beneficial to a community because of the increased tax dollars it brings; others claim costs of residential development are always negative because new school expenses offset any potential tax benefits. Neither assertion (stereotype) is in fact accurate: The only way of knowing whether a residential development will have a net positive or negative dollar impact is to examine the particulars of that specific development and of the community (T. Kelsey, Penn State University).

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.