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t <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 21, 2002 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. S-ate <br /> SUBJECT: Resolution Designating Voluntary Agricultural District—Bacon Family <br /> DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> Conservation <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1) Resolution and Map David Stancil, ERC Director, 245-2590 <br /> 2) Brochure <br /> 3) Application TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> 4)Staff Memo/Soils information Hillsborough 7324181 <br /> 5)Certification from NRCS Chapel Hill 9684501 <br /> 6)CertUCation from Tan Supervisor Durham 688-7331 <br /> 7)APB Minutes April 17,2002 Mebane 3364227.2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a resolution certifying farmlands identified by the Bacon family as <br /> qualifying farmland and designating a Voluntary Agricultural District. <br /> BACKGROUND: On behalf of himself and other family members, Don Johnson has applied to <br /> have lands owned by the Bacon family designated a Voluntary Agricultural DisMd. Orange <br /> County adopted a Voluntary Farmland Preservation Program Ordnance (VFPPO) in 1992, <br /> which provides for the creation of Voluntary Agricultural Districts. A brochure with Information <br /> about Voluntary Agricultural Districts is attached. <br /> The County's adopted Voluntary Farmland! Preservation Program Ordinance provides that the <br /> Agricultural Preservation Board review and approve applications for qualifying farmland and make <br /> recommendations to the board! of Commissioners concoming the establishment and modification <br /> of agricultural districts. Section V of the Voluntary Farmland Preservation Program Ordinance <br /> contains the requirements for Inclusion in a voluntary agricultural district. To be mml as <br /> qualifying farmland, a faun must: <br /> 1. Se padicipting in the farm present use-value tal program eetablishad by the N.C. General <br /> Statutes Sectors 105-277.2 through 10S2T7.7,or Is otherwise determined by the County b <br /> meet all the qualifwfons of this program set fifoh in the N.C.General StaWtes, Sectors 105- <br /> 277.3. <br /> 2. Be certfied by the Natural Resources Conservation Service of me United Slates DepmMent of <br /> Agnmouns as berxi a famh on which at least two4hlyds of the land Is cewosed of soils tat <br /> a. Are best suited for grovidng food,seed,fiber,forage,timber,and oil seed craps, <br />