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M <br />Enhanced Voluntary Agriculture Districts are non - monetary and are binding 10 -year <br />conservation agreements. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board certify the seven (7) <br />farm properties noted above totaling 971 acres (VAD) and 376 acres (EVAD) (rounded <br />acreage) as denoted in the attached documentation as qualifying farmland, and designate <br />them as Voluntary or Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural District farms within the Cedar <br />Grove, Caldwell, Cane Creek /Buckhorn, and White Cross Voluntary Agricultural Districts; <br />and enroll the lands in the Orange County Voluntary Agricultural District (VAD) and the <br />Enhanced Voluntary Agricultural District (EVAD) programs. <br />With approval of these additional acres, the Orange County Voluntary Agricultural District <br />Program will have enrolled 60 farms, totaling 7,162 acres in the VAD and 1,329 acres in <br />the EVAD for a total of 8,491 acres (rounded) in the program. <br />