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he Mountain Times - The High Country's Home Page <br />Naftanwide` <br />a IIl_iur7nce <br />B. Park Terrell III <br />ALLT14E SLOPES <br />6P —BATEQ 13AiLY! <br />Sng <br />Snovkiiloarding <br />Equipment <br />stories <br />http://www.mountaintimes.com/mtweokly/l 2-27-200 1 /farm.php 3 <br />All <br />.ate/" 111► 9l 71M. >. -- s"°".�t�";. <br />Auto Sates -,1- -'w► M lob., <br />1 # Updatbd Each <br />_rtF' ►3� s, �i', �'t7i�e cit1y By GP. <br />• A Weekly Publication Serving North Carolina's High Country Region <br />Farm Preservation <br />Places 1,800 Acres In <br />Voluntary Program <br />By Miles Tager <br />POSTED DECEMBER 27, 2001 <br />The careful groundwork by organizers <br />and supporters looks to be paying off in a large way; Ashe County's fledgling <br />acres into the program. <br />With the first meeting to take applications held just a month ago in the new <br />Agricultural Services Building in Jefferson, Agricultural Advisory Board Chair <br />Jim King reports that over 1,800 acres of farmland recorded in the Present <br />Use Value tax registry has been placed in within the Farmland Preservation <br />Districts outlined in the ordinance. <br />Under the ordinance guidelines, farmers in the tax registry can place part or <br />all of their agricultural lands - totaling over 25 acres either on their own or <br />combined with other farmlands within a mile — into the preservation districts. <br />suits by adjacent landowners who move in and may object to farm <br />operations. <br />New landowners will be apprised of which lands are recorded in the program <br />by notices in the county courthouse. <br />King calls that portion of the ordinance a key factor in its success; "an ounce <br />of prevention," King said. <br />:LL J -_..._ _t - .- ..I :- -- 1 ------------ <br />Condemnation proceedings against <br />farmland p eservation properties must <br />be preceded by a public hearing, and <br />municipal water and sewer cannot be <br />forced through farmland preservation <br />lands, or landowners forced to pay for <br />those services. <br />King said that the "word has gotten out" <br />that the program is voluntary and that <br />lands placed in the program can be <br />--- :1L - 1 -i1 -- 1_ - A <br />I /R/?00? 9.00 AM <br />