More than 125 people attended a meeting with Somerset County commissioners to hear about the county's plans to help shape development that is expected to occur on the roads leading to a national memorial to United Flight 93.

In August, the county hired a landscape architect to conduct a study of the main roads and the adjacent land leading to the crash site and how that land might be developed to suit the anticipated visitors to the as-yet unbuilt memorial to United Flight 93.

Officials have said they expect as many as 250,000 visitors annually to the memorial to the passengers and crew of Flight 93. Construction on the memorial, which will be off Route 30 near Shanksville in Stonycreek Township, is expected to be completed in 2011.

Last night's meeting was to provide residents with an update on the progress of the study and also to dispel some rumors or fears that property around the crash site was going to be rezoned.

"There's a lot of misinformation," said County Commissioner Jim Marker. "People say this is about zoning, but that's not necessarily the case. Otherwise, there wouldn't be meetings like this."

Jim Klein, a principal with Lardner-Klein Landscape Architects, showed computer-generated projections of development that may occur, including restaurants, motels and some retail shops. He said that officials want to make sure that any development that does occur not detract from the solemnity of a national memorial.

He also said it is important that the area's rural character is retained.

Among those residents attending the meeting was Scott Raszewski, of Stoystown, who said he supports the county's efforts, but wants to make sure that residents have some say in how land is developed.

Other residents said they would like to see any development occur in areas that are already developed and leave the rural areas alone.

Mary Ann Rosenbaum, who owns a farm along Route 30 in Quemahoning Township, is concerned about what kind of restrictions might be placed upon her property.

"Fine, we'd like to keep it as a farm now, but what if future generations want it to be a golf course," she said before the meeting.

The corridor study is being done in conjunction with the county and five municipalities around the Flight 93 crash site. The idea, Mr. Marker said, is to come up with a plan to try to address any concerns or problems that might arise when the memorial is completed and is drawing up to 250,000 visitors each year.

"It's better we plan for it rather than let it happen in a haphazard fashion," Mr. Marker said.

In the past, residents and officials with the county and Flight 93 project have said they would like to limit the potential for fly-by-night businesses, or tacky souvenir shops that could pop up near the national memorial.

Flight 93 was en route from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when it was hijacked. The official 9/11 Commission report said hijackers crashed the plane into a field near Shanksville as passengers rushed the cockpit. All 40 passengers and crew were killed.