The public owns 27,000 acres in Pennsylvania that the public can’t get to and use, according to a new report ... defines as "public land where there is no permanent, legal access.

Pennsylvania land use law is compound, complex, convoluted, confusing — and a little crazy. More and more it’s not “crazy good,” especially when addressing rapid growth in the Lehigh Valley.

Noted wordsmith Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno articulated the rationale for the "deemed approval" concept in Pennsylvania land use law noting: "Without this kind of coercive ...

Pennsylvania is one of the most flood-prone ... These river basins drain land dominated by narrow valleys and steep hills. Sitting downstream from those valleys and hills is much of the state ...

It is not every day that "new law" is created in Pennsylvania land use law, but that is precisely what occurred in a recent Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court decision, Soland v. East Bradford ...