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transfer fees collected as part of subdivision <br />development, and in lieu of required street <br />construction, to be transferred to and held by the <br />North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) for <br />the future construction of roads intended to be added <br />to the State Maintained system. Presently there is no <br />mechanism where a county can collect fees in lieu of <br />transportation improvement construction based on <br />conditions agreed to by both parties during a <br />conditional zoning process. These fees may be for a <br />developer fair share of a future comprehensive <br />intersection improvement but would not be built by <br />NCDOT until other funding could be assigned to do a <br />complete improvement; <br />23) Bona Fide Farm Use - Support legislation clarifying <br />that the farm use and agriculture exemption of 153A -340 <br />that restricts local zoning authority applies only to <br />property on which the production of crops or livestock <br />is the primary use. Clarify that marketing and agri- <br />tourism activities must be secondary uses of the <br />property and do not qualify for the exemption in the <br />absence of the production of crops or livestock; <br />24) * Revenue _ Options for Local Government - Support <br />efforts to preserve and expand the existing local <br />