Clearing Up Fruitbelt Story

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 in Opinion, The Evening Sun

Editor:

While the members of Save Our Rural Heritage are pleased with The Sun's coverage of our efforts to halt a large trailer park project in York Springs, we would like to clarify two statements made in the story that ran April 30.

First, it is the state, not our group specifically, that has designated the entire Adams County Fruitbelt, from Peach Glen to Orrtanna, as historic. The fruitbelt was named eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1994. This designation affords the area certain protections from federally funded projects or those requiring federal permits, such as wetland development in the case of the trailer park.

Second, the story did not accurately describe a provision of the eminent domain bill that has passed the General Assembly. By changing current law it would prohibit – not allow – one municipality from taking land in another municipality without approval.

Amy Worden, York Springs