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137 RURAL, BUFFER STUDY POLICY ANALYSIS - PHASE 1 Compilation of Policies. Goals, Objectives. Proposals & Standards ELEMENT: CONSERVATION The numbers in parentheses following the policies, goals. objectives, proposals, and standards are keyed to the list of references at the end. POLICY (1) Protect the following significant Public Interest Districts from adverse development impacts and require management of these areas in ways that will prevent internally generated negative impacts from affecting surrounding land: publicly owned parkland (Eno River State Park) ; state or federally designated historic/archaeological sites; research oriented lands (Duke Forest) ; and lands placed by individual property owners into conservation easements. (1) p. 3.5-1. (2) Maintain and protect land which contains valuable renewable resources such as productive agricultural areas, managed forest areas and potential reservoir sites by directing incompatible development away from these areas. (1) p. 3.5-1. (3) Protect non-renewable resource lands from incompatible development and allow their use in a safe and reasonable manner according to performance _ standards designed to ensure a sufficient level of environmental protection. (1) p. 3.5-1. (4) Direct intensive land uses to existing urban areas designated Transition areas and away from areas which are suitable for continued agricultural uses and which are protected as water supply watersheds and water quality critical areas. (1) p. 3.5-2. (5) Minimize the relocation of bonafide farming operations caused by non-farm development. (1) p. 3.5-5. (6) Provide adequate amounts of available vacant land in and near existing urban areas for intensive land uses to minimize the need for farmland consumption and direct such uses away from viable farming operations and concentrations of prime farmland. (1) p. 3.5-5. (7) Direct residential, commercial and industrial growth away from farming areas to minimize inflation of rural land values and tax assessment which can price farmers out of the land market. (1) p. 3.5-5. (8) Discourage the Iodation of new non-farm development, particularly more intensive _,.residential development. within farming areas to minimize the incidence of complaints and nuisance suits against farm operations. (I) p. 3.5-6. (9) Encourage more effective forest management practices with consideration to discouraging inappropriate clear cutting, providing renewable energy resources and protecting wildlife habitats. (1) p. 3.5-6.