Mar 27, 2008
Will housing slump save open space?
Not long ago, alarmed planners in the Lehigh Valley scurried to figure out how to stop developers from chewing up more than 4 square miles of open space each year. They pondered more farmland preservation, stronger zoning and spending tens of millions of public dollars to preserve open space.
It turns out all they really needed was a good old housing slump.
The number of building permits issued in 2007 dropped 45 percent over just two years earlier, while land approved for development decreased by more than 800 acres, or 1.3 square miles, in the same period, according to a Lehigh Valley Planning Commission report to be released today. Read more
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