Now swerve… seek some knowledge b4 u talk ignorance to me 🙃

Heyzues ain’t nothing Christ like about u… u lack too much knowledge to have Christ in your “nickname” fool

Who said I hate America 🤡?? 🤔y’all worship the ppl who destroying the country so who really hates America u idiot?? Not me Bozo ☺️

What BS

TIL Jackie Chan and Jean Claude Van Damme were at the capital.

What a fucking idiot lol.

That's what really perplexes me. So many of them are empty, yet more keep getting built.

I'm in the Lehigh Valley, and it's really sad to see so many warehouses popping up. The thing that perplexes me is that so many of them are empty. Some for years at this point. If/when these are occupied traffic is going to be a nightmare. No thought or care seems to go into the roads infrastructure when these things pop up.

In a few years, my wife and I are going to move away to be closer to family. No longer want to stay here long term.

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I went to Parkland, and while the facilities were great, the actual teaching was pretty hit or miss. I took honors and AP classes and I had several teachers who barely taught anything. Including a French teacher who did literally nothing besides assign us a project to do occasionally.

I think easement is being used correctly here. Some level of government purchases an agricultural easement. It’s essentially a subsidy to the land owner so long as the property remains farmland (or green space in some instances). Should the property transact, the easement goes with it. This would probably require language in the easement agreement that would allow for sunsetting or some other form of release which would likely include a repayment of benefits.

Just so you both know, per southeast PA, you’re both in Pennsyltucky 😜

Pave paradise; put up a parking lot.

Not official -> official does not mean flipped.

One party -> Different party means flipped.

The house was flipped, and the three seats were not. I can't more unequivocally say the title is wrong, misleading, what have you.

Lol my sister uses this to describe where we’re from every time someone asks.

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

This whole winter has been a "false spring".

What about “False Spring” that happens every year? A few nice days followed by some bitter cold. Don’t let a few Sunny days in the 60’s lull you into thinking Winter is over.

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

A lot of these farms were profitable and don't have to be converted into something else (including more heavily regulated "preserved farms").

I'll give you an example. There was a very controversial warehouse proposal near Kutztown around when COVID started. Whether or not it gets built is an off topic tangent and its not exactly clear what's going to happen there.

But rather than talk about that part I want to talk about why the farmer wants to sell to a warehouse builder in the first place:

It comes down to zoning. The farm has been profitable and stable for hundreds of years at that location, but in recent times it became rezoned as industrial use (against the owner's wishes). Which means a significant property tax hike. Now throw in the farmer wanting to retire, the lack of younger people wanting to be farmers (for various reasons), and its "screw it I'll sell to someone who will actually use it as what its zoned for and cash out/retire."

Now why & how did a multiple-centuries old farm become zoned as industrial in the first place? Harrisburg. Its politics plain and simple. Harrisburg's vision for the future of Pennsylvania's economy in places like Berks, the Lehigh valley, and elsewhere is to attract warehouse jobs. Harrisburg went to the local municipal governments and said hey we're demanding you zone X amount of your territory as industrial to attract these sweet, sweet warehouse jobs [that pay crap, treat their employees like crap, and congest the shit out of our roads]. We don't care if your residents hate it, this is the future we want.

The 81, 78, 33 corridors were heavily pushed towards rezoning with the explicit goal of building these warehouses. Rt-222 isn't by any stretch of the imagination part of this original "vision" but it was collateral damage from shit-policies.

PennDot envisions building a 5 lane highway circle on the east end of Kutztown on Rt222 to accommodate a 300-acre, 4-warehouse mega-facility with no plans to expand the road infrastructure of Rt-222 between there & Allentown due to the delusion that the trucks will never want to travel east (lol). They expect them to go west, hook up with 81, go down to 78, just to cross east towards Allentown & etc.

I generally lean towards YIMBYism but I don't think it's wrong to be a NIMBY for this issue. Warehouses result in a lot of pollution which has a negative impact on people's health. The NIMBYs that annoy me are the ones who oppose multifamily housing or renewable energy.

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Lmao he fucked around and got found out.

“Had to help people” lol he heard people yell from the grass outside during the “stop the steal” chants?

> Pennsylvania does charge estate tax

no, they charge inheritance taxes and only if you aren't transferring to a spouse or joint owner

true, but charters made it worse

Most people don't really think about it beyond green=good. Many Americans think cities and dense areas are bad for the environment.

Unless you’re doing it via land trust this is the ELI5 of how it works in PA for the counties that have a preservation program.