Unfair labor practice complaint against Temple gonna get filed in 3... 2...

Who knew that Temple could be such a prick place. Maybe Fetterman can weigh in on federal funding once he feels better. Or, maybe Shapiro can zero out their budget request until such time as they treat their grad students like humans instead of chattel.

Conshie is just outside of Philly! A bit more than 50 minutes last time I drove down 476. More like 2 hours.

Dallas is the better town but WB may be more affordable.

There is a difference between allowing and excluding. A muni not having every zoning district under the sun does not mean it has excluded that district, just that it has planned according to current uses and known future plans.

Safety Dance.

Whatever his situation, John Ames failed in his duties to his dogs during incredibly low temperatures. He could ask for help, sure, but a 2ndary issue here, as I see it, is the failure of town employees to do their jobs.

If the guy is not able to properly take care of dogs due to some disability (if it does not involve mobility then why is it mentioned?), then perhaps he ought not to have that many dogs.

>The only “developable” land for industrial is currently a turkey farm. The other two areas are currently in use as a junk yard and auto repair shop.

The MPC does not require that the turkey farm be zoned as anything other than its existing use. Nor, for that matter, does the MPC require that any part of the residential area be rezoned into something else. To the extent you continue to suggest that the only option re zoning is to rezone ag or any other zone into something else, I will challenge your reliance on the MPC to force that type of rezoning. Simply is not required in the MPC.

btw - your township could rezone (if not already zoned as such) the junk yard and/or auto repair shop for commercial/light industrial.

Marty just wants to go home.

Giant at night is dark and lonely and cold.

Won't you help out a poor, lonely, cold and creepy robot? Help Marty phone home!

>So if your township is all farmland like many are, some of it will need to be zones industrial.

No township in PA is "all farmland." The MPC does not require farmland to be rezoned.

>The MPC requires municipalities to allow for all types of zoning.

The MPC does not require that productive farmland be rezoned to commercial/light industrial. That particular zoning can be placed elsewhere.

True story: I know a guy who owned a small farm on which he had placed a conservation easement. His municipality, without cause, decided to rezone his area from ag to some form of commercial/light industry. He asked them not rezone his land as that type of zoning was inappropriate for his preserved farm and because the municipality already had an area with that zoning designation. The municipality refused his request. At the next meeting, he brought a couple of lawyers. The zoning was not changed.

>Some level of government purchases an agricultural easement.

Now you have it right. It is not the land which is purchased but the easement on the land. Ownership does not change.

One thing which could be done better? Enforcement of the terms of the easement. Right across the street from Cumberland Valley High School in central PA, a conservation easement was placed on a historic horse farm. Years later, the property was sold. And warehouses are now under construction on that very property.

No, not it is not how an easement is obtained. Not even a fit with the word "easement."

>The state and county essentially buy the land from the owner via an easement.

You may be right on much of the above, but this blurb is not one of those.

His qui failed him.

>If it sits empty x number of years state buys back at going rate.

Define "empty."

>They want large warehouses that can be leased forever

Can they be leased forever? A number of warehouses sit empty, waiting for someone to lease it.

>Very little can be done about it. It's private land, zoned commercial

Maybe stop zoning productive farmland as commercial/light industrial?

>More farmland could be put in preservation, but that requires us to pay more taxes.

Would it?

According to this article, it was in the York Dispatch: https://www.businessinsider.com/family-found-dead-suicide-pact-were-hell-bent-trump-winning-2023-2

The "state" likely would seek a court order to 1) force the district to do what it must and/or, 2) appoint a receiver.

The mandate is to fund. And they do. The court case is about how that is being accomplished or not accomplished. Most of the funding in most districts is provided thru a combination of property taxes and earned income taxes (aka EIT). Because of inequities in wealth or thru the luck of locations, some districts have greater ability to leverage property taxes and the EIT into an outstanding public school education for their students. Lower Merion, for instance. On the other end are districts such as Steelton and Chester.

Yesterday's ruling addresses the inequities in funding.

tyvm... oh, sheetttt... they werent kidding when they said almost 800 pages.

How many school districts today in the city of York?