Type of Protective Zoning: Limit Activity By Creating a Minimal Acreage

Type of Protective Zoning: Limit Activity By Creating a Minimal Acreage

Creating a minimal acreage is a possible way to protect your community by addressing where fracking activity goes.

Minimum Acreage Requirements

Some fracking infrastructure can take up an enormous amount of space. If a gas wellpad will take up 50 acres and it is permitted for a 55 acre plot it may be very close to other types of development. If you ensure that certain activity can only be permitted on a site that has at least a certain amount of acres you can help to ensure that the fracking will not interfere with other types of land uses.   

Example:

• Penn Township* - Injection Well Ordinance states that the minimum site required shall be 25 acres.

*Version of Penn Township Injection Well Ordinance is labelled as “draft” but it is actually the final-version language