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31 �� r <br />2 <br />the discussion of potential Agricultural Priority Areas could prove helpful in addressing <br />"districts, " The ultimate question is whether to continue with farms as individual districts or <br />whether districts are larger areas of the County, within which farms could participate in the <br />program. <br />The following excerpt from subsection B illustrates how the definition of districts affects <br />membership on the Board, <br />B. MEMBERSHIP <br />1. Requirements <br />b. Each District existing pursuant to this ordinance shall be represented <br />on the board by a person owning farmland in the district. Subject to <br />revision based on forthcoming ideas for large Agricultural Districts based <br />on agricultural priority areas. <br />D. DUTIES <br />Include a ninth duty, as per the State Model Ordinance, to develop a countywide <br />farmland preservation plan as defined in NCGS § 106- 744(e)(1) for presentation to <br />the Board of County Commissioners, <br />Section V - APPLICATION AND CERTIFICATION OF QUALIFYING FARMLAND AND <br />VOLUNTARY AGRICULTURAL DISTRICTS <br />B. REQUIREMENTS FOR INCLUSION IN A VOLUNTARY AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT <br />1. Reconsider size requirements for individual farm and two or more farms <br />applying as package. Consider the advantages and disadvantages of <br />establishing large regional districts Examples of existing North Carolina <br />programs show that urban areas tend to use agricultural priority areas and <br />part of a ranking system, and often have smaller acreage requirements. <br />D. APPLICATION AND CERTIFICATION PROCEDURES <br />6. Change language to say conservation "agreement "not conservation <br />"easement,'*' <br />Section VI - REVOCATION OF CONSERVATION AGREEMENT <br />No proposed changes. <br />Section VII - PUBLIC HEARINGS <br />No proposed changes. <br />Section VIII - RECORD NOTICE OF PROXIMITY TO FARMLANDS <br />B. PROCEDURE Change from B to C <br />C, Add <br />1, Install identification signs along right of way <br />2. Place maps of current VADs and notice of their status and what it means <br />to be a farm, in key offices such as Planning &Inspections, the Register of <br />Deeds, Land Records, Cooperative Extension, Soil & Water Conservation, <br />Rural Farm Services <br />3, Require written notice on preliminary plans for major subdivisions and <br />planned developments within one mile of an existing VAD <br />L: \Tina \AgPreservation \VFPP0 changes -2.doc <br />