Township Supervisors Association Supports Impact Fee

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

February 6, 2012 | 9:02 PM

The Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors is supporting the impact fee legislation, which a joint conference committee approved earlier this evening.
The bill restricts local governments’ ability to zone and regulate natural gas drilling by creating statewide standards for well setbacks, and requiring municipalities to allow gas extraction in all zones, except for dense residential areas.
PSATS Executive Director Dave Sanko’s letter said “if we take a look at it, there are some reasonable and common sense standards” in the bill. “There are still some opportunities for a community to regulate certain things. If anyone’s intention was to over-regulate or ban, they’re not going to be happy. But that’s not allowable in the current law, either.”
Here’s the letter Sanko sent lawmakers:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/289812-stateimpact-pa-psats-letter.html