Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
23 <br />Agricultural District Ordinance Notes 09/10/03 <br />Article XVI, General Notes <br />The Farmland Preservation Enabling Act does not require that the written report, submitted to the <br />North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA & CS) on a yearly basis, <br />be made available to the public by the county. However, it is a public record, and, as such, is <br />available to the public. To promote public education a provision can be inserted in this section of <br />the ordinance that requires that the report be made available to the public. Also, if a provision is <br />already included in the ordinance to make county maps marked with agricultural districts available <br />to the public then a county could also choose to make those maps available in both the annual report <br />to the NCDA & CS and in the public report as well. <br />Although,. not required by this model ordinance, the county may choose to report the number of <br />existing agricultural districts in the annual report. <br />