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PART I - GENERAL ORDINANCES <br />Chapter 48 - VOLUNTARY FARMLAND PRESERVATION PROGRAM <br />become effective upon implementation as provided in this Section. The boundaries of each Region are <br />identified as follows and are depicted on the map which is Exhibit A to this Ordinance: <br />(1) Cedar Grove, <br />(2) High Rock /Efland, <br />(3) Cane Creek /Buckhorn, <br />(4) White Cross, <br />(5) New Hope, <br />(6) Schley /Eno, <br />(7) Caldwell. <br />(b) Implementation. <br />(1) In order to implement the purposes stated in Section 48 -3, this program provides for the <br />creation of Voluntary Agricultural Districts that meet the following standard: <br />(2) The District or Enhanced District shall consist of a minimum of one or more Certified <br />Qualifying Farms. <br />(3) Farmland that does not meet the minimum acreage requirement to be certified but that meets <br />all other certification qualifications may be added to an existing District or Enhanced District upon <br />execution by the owner and the recording of a conservation agreement between the County and <br />the owner. <br />(4) All land enrolled in a Region, defined in Section 48 -6(a), above, shall be part of a single <br />district, whether enrolled in the District or the Enhanced District. If a single farm has acreage in <br />two or more regions, the farm shall participate in the district where the largest acreage is found. All <br />land in a region as defined in Section 48 -6(a), above, shall be treated as a single district whether <br />enrolled in the District or the Enhanced District. <br />(c) Education. The County may take such action as it deems appropriate through the Board or other <br />entities or individuals to encourage the formation of the Districts or the Enhanced Districts and to further <br />their purposes and objectives, including the implementation of public information programs to <br />reasonably inform landowners of the agricultural district program. <br />(d) Addition and withdrawal. <br />(1) Qualifying farmland in a Region shall be added to the Agricultural District as provided in this <br />Ordinance. <br />(2) In the event that one or more Certified Qualifying Farms in the Agricultural District withdraws <br />and the acreage in the District or Enhanced District becomes less than the minimum acreage <br />required or results in the remaining land being noncontiguous, any Agricultural District will <br />continue to exist so long as there is one Certified Qualifying Farm in the Agricultural District. <br />(Ord. of 03 -24 -1992, Art. VI, eff. 04 -01 -1992; Amend. of 04 -17 -2000, eff. 04 -17 -2000; Amend. of <br />06 -23 -2005, eff. 06 -23 -2005; Amend. of 04 -20 -2010, eff. 04 -20 -2010) <br />Orange County, North Carolina, Code of Ordinances <br />Page 5 of 13 <br />