Shaping Our Communities

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Length: 27 minutes

This episode of the award-winning GreenWorks for Pennsylvania TV show focuses on people working to prevent urban sprawl, protect parks and plan for a greener Pennsylvania.

In this episode you will:

• Meet Bob Riahi, a Lancaster County developer who works to preserve land and community by building more houses per acre and by adding porches, sidewalks, businesses and common areas that create the feeling of an old-time neighborhood;

• Visit the Allentown Paint site in Lehigh County, a former deserted industrial site or brownfield, where a new owner, the Allentown Economic Development Corp. and the PA Department of Environmental Protection are working together under the state's Land Recycling Program to clean and restore the warehouse to productive use;

• Learn how the city of Meadville, together with some smaller neighboring municipalities and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, is undergoing a land use "visioning" process that helps the towns plan for future growth while preserving open space and encouraging prosperity;

• Meet Jack and Claire Donahue, an Adams County couple who have sold the development rights of their farm to the Adams County Conservancy. The Donahues are not farmers but want to conserve land and preserve the Commonwealth's heritage;

• Meet Jack Myers, the GreenWorks Volunteer of the Month, who has played a role in the development of Two-Mile Run County Park in Venango County.

GreenWorks TV hosts Tom Sexton and Debra Wolf-Goldstein come to you from charming Elizabethtown in Lancaster County. Elizabethtown is considered a model of good land use, with a balance of commercial, residential, and industrial areas that all contribute toward a sense of community.

Get Involved:

Allentown Economic Development Corporation
905 Harrison St.
Allentown, PA, 18103
Phone: (610) 770-1015

Brookside Construction Company
1177 6th St.
Whitehall, PA, 18052
Phone: (610) 794-3400 ext. 201
Fax: (610) 794-3408

Dave Stone
Vernon Township Building
McMath Ave.
Meadville, PA, 16335
Phone: (814) 337-8127

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Northeast Regional Office Building
Environmental Cleanup Program; Hazardous Sites Section
2 Public Square
Wilkes Barre, PA, 18711-0790
Phone: (717) 826-2589
Fax: (717) 820-4907

French Creek Project
Box 172
Allegheny College
Meadville, PA, 16335
Phone: (814) 332-2946

Land Conservancy of Adams County
PO Box 4584
Gettysburg, PA, 17325
Phone: (717) 334-2828

Millfield Construction Company
2130 Marietta Ave.
PO Box 6370
Lancaster, PA, 17607
Phone: (717) 509-0293
Fax: (717) 293-9232