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<br /> ' DRAFT
<br /> 12l2DJ82
<br /> PROPOSED if 7/$3
<br /> - ORANGE COUNTY - 1/14/83
<br /> FARM PRESERVATION PROGRAM
<br /> FINDINGS OF PACT - .
<br /> • Prime farmland is an irreplaceable physical and.'economic asset and
<br /> resource of Orange County. ..
<br /> • Orange County has experienced a substantial:iacres,sPin population as
<br /> well as a large decrease in farmland since 1950. Such growth pressure '
<br /> is likely to continue in future decades.. :As a consequence, land prices
<br /> and va {ues have and will continue to escalate putting further economic
<br /> pressu a on County agriculture and increasing the cost of continued
<br /> farm operations as well as acquisition of land. for farm expansion. The
<br /> encroa anent of the non-farm population into farming areas will also
<br /> _> -increa a the liklihood of nuisance complaints, vandalism, crop theft • ' '•
<br /> /and da a cro and-soil pollution, increased traffic and_other impedi-
<br /> .b a p° � P �
<br /> .ments tbo farm operations.
<br /> . Major ublic projects proposed for Orange County will probably impact -
<br /> farm o erations in the County directly through acquisition of farm prop--
<br /> erty a well ,as indirectly by increasing the desireabi,lit:y of and
<br /> access" ility;ta farming areas. These projects include the.development -
<br /> of Sev Mile and Cane Creek Reservoirs; development of the Eno River
<br /> State ark; construction of 1-40 and the southern By-pass of NC 54;
<br /> and wi ening of 1-85.
<br /> • Orange ounty's'leading agricultural revenue producer, dairy farming,
<br /> is cone ntrated in areas under increasing development pressure. Dairy-
<br /> ing inv l.ves a large capital investment and, as such, it is more expen--
<br /> sive to relocate such an operation in the face of development pressures.
<br /> Poultry and egg operations are both potentially the subject of nuisance
<br /> complaints from non-farm residents. -
<br /> . Xnflati n continues to place economic burdens on farmers in Orange County.
<br /> POLICY OBJECTIVE
<br /> I
<br /> 1. The problem of increasing tax burdens on agriculture should be alleviated.
<br /> 2. The occ .ranee of complaints and nuisance suits against farm operations
<br /> should i be minimized.
<br /> 3. The negative impacts of proposed public projects on farming operations
<br /> and on rime and locally important farmland should be minimized. -
<br /> 4. RelocatT,on of farming operations due to non-farm development pressures
<br /> should he minimized. -
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