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Preserving
Wilderness and Farm Land
Tools For Saving Land
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Mitigations
Ordinences and Policies
are a new farmland protection technique. In 1995, city officials in Davis, Calif., enacted an ordinance that requires developers to permanently protect one acre of farmland for every acre of agricultural land they convert to other uses. Generally, developers place an agricultural conservation easement on farmland in another part of the city. While most of the regulatory farmland protection techniques restrict the property rights of farmers, this type of mitigation ordinance makesthe developers pay for farmland conversion. King County, Wash., has a "no net loss of farmland" policy in its comprehensive plan. The policy prohibits the conversion of farmland unless an equal amount of agricultural land of the same or better quality is added to the county's agricultural production zones.
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Butterfly
Hollow
Gordonsville,
TN 38563