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12:x. <br />Staff Paper 363 June 2003 <br />The Impact of Open Space and Potential Local Disamenities <br />on Residential Property Values in Berks County, Pennsylvania <br />Richard Ready' and Charles Abdalla2 <br />'Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics <br />2Associate Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics <br />Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology <br />The Pennsylvania State University <br />University Park, PA 16802 <br />Staff Papers are circulated without formal review by the Department of Agricultural Economics <br />and Rural Sociology. Content is the sole responsibility of the authors. <br />This report is a shortened version of a longer "report, "GIS Analysis of Land Use on the Rural <br />Urban Fringe: The Impact of Land Use and Potential Local Disamenities on Residential Property <br />Values and on the Location of Residential Development in Berks County, Pennsylvania ", which <br />is available at http: / /Ianduse.aers.psu.edu For more detail on the data, methods, or results, <br />please see the longer report. <br />This research was supported by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development <br />(NERCRD), under Internal Agreement No. 2093 -TPSU- USDA -0496. Additional support that <br />allowed collection of data on potential local disamenities came from Citizens for Pennsylvania's <br />Future (PennFuture), under Grant in Aid No. 62114. <br />The authors are grateful for support and assistance from Dr. Timothy Kelsey, Dr. Rick Day, <br />Stewart Bruce and Yanguo Wang, for local knowledge of agricultural production provided by <br />Clyde Myers, Donald Reinert, Mena Hautau, and Dr. David Beyer, for invaluable help on <br />assembling datasets from Martin Moyers and Bill Kochan, and for the guidance and help <br />provided by the Project Local Advisory Group, Clyde Myers, Judith Schwank, Glenn <br />Knoblauch, Duane Rashlich, Tami Hildebrand, Kenneth Grimes, and Robert Behling. The <br />authors are also grateful to four anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. The <br />authors assume all responsibility for the statements made in this report. <br />