River Route they call it. We can ask ourselves what's good about our community, and plan to protect it by zoning. Zoning, or landuse regulation, specifies how a particular piece of land can be used. With more people on less land, there's greater potential for groundwater contamination. Residential development requires increasing services like fire and police protection, street maintenance, public facilities, sewer and water, snow plows, garbage trucks, and more buildings and staff so that school districts can accommodate more children.
Taxes go up.
Peterman tells the people that with unregulated development they can expect their entire way of life to change. Or, they can plan now and decide how and where development will occur. As a result of Peterman's work, some townships in Perry County have formed committees and taken the first steps toward planning. Debra Peterman received a B.S. in biology from the Eberly College of Science and the Schreyer Honors College in May 1998. She will receive her master's degree in ecology in May of 1999.