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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 18, 1999 SUBJECT: Voluntary Agricultural District Designation - Property of Robert E. Strayhorn DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource Conservation PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) ON ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 1) Application 2) Vicinity Maps 3) Certification from NRCS 4) Certification from Tax Supervisor 5) Draft Conservation Agreement(s) 6) ADAB Minutes, Meeting of 4 -21 -99 Donald R. Belk, Planner II/Land Use & Preservation TELEPHONE NUMBERS: - - ext. 2594 Hillsborough 732 -8181 Chapel Hill 968 -4501 Durham 688 -7331 Mebane 227 -2031 PURPOSE: To consider the application of Robert E. Strayhom for certification as qualifying farmland and designation as a Voluntary Agricultural District. BACKGROUND: Section IV.D.2. of the Voluntary Farmland Preservation Program Ordinance permits the Agricultural Districts Advisory Board to review and approve applications for qualifying farmland and make recommendations concerning the establishment and modification of agricultural districts. Section V of the Voluntary Farmland Preservation Program Ordinance contains the requirements for inclusion in a voluntary agricultural district. To be certified as qualifying farmland, a farm must: 1. Be participating in the farm present use -value taxation program established by the N.C. General Statutes, Sections 105 -277.2 through 105- 277.7, or is otherwise determined by the County to meet all the qualifications of this program set forth in the N.C. General Statutes, Sections 105- 277.3. 2. Be certified by the Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture as being a farm on which at least two -thirds of the land is composed of soils that: a. Are best suited for providing food, seed, fiber, forage, timber, and oil oil seed crops; b. Have good soil qualities; c. Are favorable for all major crops common to Orange County;