The Brandywine Conservancy is helping Greenway partner East Brandywine Township respond to an ACRE (Agriculture, Communities, and Rural Environment) legislative violation notice from the PA State Attorney General that the Township received in late 2018. Specifically, the Pennsylvania Attorney General found the Township’s zoning ordinance to be “overly restrictive and unreasonable (with regard to forestry/timber harvest requirements), and thus beyond the Township’s authority, under state law.” Given the Conservancy’s on-going work in developing a set of model forestry/timber harvesting provisions for municipal zoning ordinances, the Township sought its help.
