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15 Zoning Dig. 1 (1963)

handle is hein.journals/planevirw15 and id is 1 raw text is: NI NG Head In The Sand About The Value Of Land David W. Craig A few years ago, a builder in Easttown Township, a Main Line bedroom suburb of Philadelphia, attacked the township's one-acre residential lot area minimum. In the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the township was hard-pressed to defend the one-acre requirement against the claim that it made the land- cost factor of development too high. To defend this population density control, the township attorneys relied partly on a state study of the relationship between population density and the market value of land, on a county-wide basis.' Not surprisingly, the study showed that the market value of land per acre goes up as population density goes up. For example: Population density of county Average market value in persons per square mile of land per acre County A .............. . 10 $ 47.00 County B ............... 100 200.00 County C ............... 1000 1300.00 Mr. Craig is City Solicitor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This editorial is a summary of more extended remarks made November 9, 1962 at the Fourth Annual Community Development Conference, Ohio State University. 'Pa. Dept. of Commerce, Population of Pennsylvania, Chart XII, p. 28 (1955). Volume 15 (1963) 1