I think zoning needs to change, and how we approach land use. I believe that redevelopment needs to be a priority and that new sites cannot be built while abandoned or vacant area exists.

Eminent domain is costly and people fight it in court all the time. Also, do we really want the precedent of the state seizing the property of a private individual and selling it to another because the state doesn’t like how you’re using it?

I think vacancy taxes are a better solution, for housing and retail.

You’ll wish we’d been using it when suddenly Ukraine doesn’t provide nearly as much grain it used to and prices increase while availability decreases.

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The government claims land all the damn time. If it sits empty x number of years state buys back at going rate. There solved it for you.

Christ stop with the smaller/ poorer spending more per student.

Yes, sometimes it's waste.

Other times it's a janitor salary divided amongst 100 students as opposed to 1000

Or a cook divided similarly.

Economy of scale is a thing

I sympathize with this, but when that vacant property belongs to a different developer there isn’t really a means to prevent someone else from doing it without artificially favoring existing landholders

> I am on the side of cutting out the Charter schools all together, the continued tax hike to accommodate the fraud of paying the Charter schools over sending kids to the public school is choking the real estate potential for the area.

Yeah I'm in that camp. Charter schools always sounded like a band-aid type solution anyway. Instead of fixing the problems we're just choking the already failing school of funds and exporting them to another school where nothing stops them from eventually having the same problems of poor management, corruption, poor teachers over time.

Also I always felt like charter kind of robbed that sense of community public schools give.

Again never blamed anyone for wanting to send their kids there, but as a society I feel like this is not the most efficient use of our tax dollars.

When are you all going to realize that the new robber barons don’t care about natural beauty and pristine views!! They want large warehouses that can be leased forever. And it will not be long before they replace the working poor with computers and robots. The Pennsylvania we had 30 years ago will never be seen again.

Everyone listen to this guy he has a lot of made up internet points.

And...? I thought were were talking about how the average Joe doesn't get modern day politics and how they work?

Yes, that's what I was referring to

It's not just food. It's Amazon, Walmart, and everyone else who sells stuff online. They compete with each other and one way is the speed of delivery. We import stuff like never before. Before it ends up at its final destination, it goes to a warehouse.

RIP Orky’s.

Hell yea !

Since you asked (and ONLY since you did), I feel resentful toward those who complain about "change". Building Amazon warehouses (or the like) are ways to offer jobs to myriad people in our communities. In addition, the tax revenues are huge! How can people complain legitimately about keeping our communities financially solvent??

More farmland could be put in preservation, but that requires us to pay more taxes. A lot of times that funding is a match between the state and county. My county has very little in the way of local jobs, and we're getting a warehouse built here in the next year or so. If 600 people from here can work there and not travel to neighboring counties for work that's a good thing. I do think in rural counties we need to support housing development density. Folks are in horror at what is happening in a neighboring county with sprawling housing developments on former farms, but fight multi-family developments every chance they get. I don't think they realize that most zoned ag districts allow single family housing by right, usually with 3-5 acres per parcel. Developers have the cash to buy that land, and the houses they are building are way out of most people's price ranges, but being built regardless. 100 acres divided into 20 mcmansions with sweeping lawns is no less of a problem than 100 acres with 2 warehouses on it.

And is the farmland actually being used for something? People keep complaining "save the farmland" when some of the properties haven't been used as such for years, if not longer.

Already been looking around up in McKean-Potter-Tioga for several years now and it's not nearly as easy as I thought.

Gas pads and pipeline easements everywhere, big acreage is kind of scarce, expensive and typically doesn't have its OGMs with it. Also a lot of land has been subdivided into weird narrow strips with stream wetland challenges or steep slopes. Plus usually neighbors with shit holes next door.

I wholeheartedly support the development of land along highways (and elsewhere) in whatever ways the market deems is their best use - as long as they comply with appropriate environmental and other laws.

Our economy runs on logistics - warehouses, trucks, trains, delivery gobs of products all over the world and to our doors. Places near intersections of major highways in relatively close proximity to huge population centers are exactly the types of places warehouses make sense.

I don't think farm land should be considered a better use than the warehouse. The warehouse creates a lot more jobs. It is often less polluting. There are downsides of course, truck traffic and eyesores (I guess - not to me personally - I see economic development).

I don't see historic value in farmland. Yes, protect any gravesites or historic structures (they're required to do this by law).

F#ck a democracy… GOD never made a democracy 🤷🏾‍♂️… MMM… MODERN DAY- MALCOLM- MENTALITY… 🤫😶

Deliveries and food supply have been fine the whole time I've lived here. Does it need to be faster still? I'm alright with waiting longer for a package if it means avoiding the ecological destruction of rural areas.

So York?

Or even their own parents.

It's really even more important that boomers are removed from any sort of decision making, political and corporate, than it is them being unable to vote. They've been incompetently running things for the past 30 years and it needs to stop.

Naaa it’s more idiots & demons out here than me, it’s called society 🤡