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June 25, 2012 ( Volume 6 1 No. 12 <br />Zoning Bulletin <br />Source: Boston Herald; www.bostonherald.com <br />PENNSYLVANIA <br />On May 10, 2012, Pennsylvania's Public Utility Commission <br />"approved final guidelines for most of the new Marcellus Shale <br />drilling law, though rules regarding the zoning provisions being <br />challenged in the state court system were put on hold." Report- <br />edly, the "zoning - related rules likely will not be finalized until <br />the pending lawsuit seeking overturn [of] that section of the law <br />is decided." <br />Source: Pittsburgh -Post Gazette; http://shale.sites.post- <br />gazette.com <br />RHODE ISLAND . <br />Rhode Island's General Assembly is considering a bill, H7866, <br />which would amend the state's building code. Among other <br />things, "[p]rovisions in the bill would significantly shrink the ac- <br />ceptable `buildable lot size' from 80,000 square feet to 40,000 <br />square feet, eliminate the assessment of slope when calculating <br />buildable area and add a definition of . . . `conservation develop- <br />ment' to the code." "Opponents say the bill would hamstring lo- <br />cal zoning officials and open up hundreds of thousands of acres <br />in rural Rhode Island to development" by increasing density in <br />rural areas. Proponents say the bill "simply clarifies the building <br />code for building officials." <br />Source: eco RI news; www.ecori.org <br />12 © 2012 Thomson Reuters <br />