Check with real estate offices in Chinatown. They'll have notaries working there. Also a bank would as well.

ETA if there is a councilperson or state legislators office in Chinatown they will also notarize.

Sure. But you cannot exclude a zoning district, so somewhere in the twp has to allow for that zoning. For ex. you cannot say no trailer parks allowed in the township. There has to be some parcel with a zoning designation that allows it. This applies to everywhere except Philly because that is the only 1st class city.

For example, my muni is probably 65-75% farmland and conservation forest, including gamelands, if not more. Residential mostly only along valley floor with about 2,000 total residents. Our multi-family zoned area is all currently developed with single family homes. The one undeveloped parcel is in a flood zone (deliberate). 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 only developable land by right in the muni for either residential or industrial is either existing farmland for residential or that turkey farm. I’m in Perry Co. Look at Juniata or other small rural counties municipalities and you’ll see this is more common than not. Its not that it has to be rezoned, its that you cannot exclude any type of zoning from a municipality. So if you were coming up with your zoning when the MPC was created in 1970, you’re going to pick areas away from residents and farms “who would never sell” to give that industrial zoning designation to.

The MPC requires municipalities to allow for all types of zoning. So some land somewhere within the muni will have to have this zoning designation. You cannot say no industrial in the township. So if your township is all farmland like many are, some of it will need to be zones industrial.

Zoning changes dont mean a property tax hike. Any farm over 10 acres is going to be in clean and green so its tax burden is minimal. The issue is their children aren’t interested in farming so there is no one to hand the land down to. That means when they are ready to retire the land will go up for sale to the highest bidder. In many municipalities (mine included) the local zoning/planning commission -muni not county, zoned this land industrial as way to comply with the MPC and also block industrial development within the township. Its going to be a farm forever right? The proliferation of warehouses, which meet the industrial zoning definition, has meant that land can be bought and developed for that purpose. It can also be used for industrial farming, but those companies prefer to work with farmers to minimize liability not own the land themselves. Right now warehouses have the money to buy the land. 10 years from now it could be some other industry competing for it, for better or worse.

Yes it goes into the deed. Heres a link explaining how it works in PA for a land trust or state/local purchase. https://conservationtools.org/guides/148-farm-preservation-options-for-landowners#heading_1

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.

Yes. The state and county essentially buy the land from the owner via an easement. Its usually much less than market rate but not an unsubstantial sum. The farm has to qualify and there is a very long backlog to get high enough on the priority list to get into easement which can take years to decades. More funding would speed the process up. Funding requires a source, and that source is probably going to be through taxes.

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.

How about the Philly PD ends its soft strike and actually starts making arrests in these violent crimes. You can’t prosecute people if no arrests are being made. Philly cops have been butthurt since Krasner got elected the first go around. They need to get over it and get back to work or the whole department should be reorganized like they did in Camden.

Diner is still there too. There's also the Shermans Creek Inn and a Barbecue place (actually 2!) in either direction on 34.

But he is. By blocking new development he put a premium on the existing housing. So older folks sell and move away and the younger folks that grew up in the neighborhood are priced out. No apartments or anything that they could rent or buy for a reasonable price. In the 10 years I rented I was pushed further south in his district, from South St. to Christian to Federal and finally Mifflin before buying a house on the southwest side of Passyunk. My friends who still rent can’t find a 1br apartment and are stuck renting houses w/roommates they don’t really want to have at 40 years old. Allowing new development and multifamily housing would alleviate a lot of the issues. Theres more than enough room for everyone, but not if only single family housing is allowed.

Its because you’re getting texts from different organizations.

The county commissioners and/or election board decided to pay for postage.

Absoulety call the Dem voter hotline tomorrow. When they do mail your ballot you’ll need to pay for overnight mail back to their office if its within a few days of the election. I did have a person who did absentee & in FL receive his ballot today that was mailed on 10/27 from SCPA. So the mail is moving.