Agenda - 05-21-2002 - 5d; VAD - Miller, Lee

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t ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 21, 2002 Action Agenda Item No. s-d SUBJECT: Resolution Designating Voluntury Agricultural District—Lee Miller Property DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) C� Conservation L ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: 1)Resolution and Map David Stencil, ERG Director, 24&2590 2) Brochure 3)Application TELEPHONE NUMBERS: 4)Staff Memo/Soils Information Hillsborough 7322181 5)Certification from NRCS Chapel Hill 968-4501 6) CeNfcation from Tax Supervisor Durham 688-7331 7)APB Minutes April 17, 2002 Mebane 336$272031 PURPOSE: To consider a resolution certiying the Lee H. Miller farm as qualifying farmland and designating a Voluntary Agricultural Distrid. BACKGROUND: Lee Miller, the owner of a farm on Pearson Road In Little River Township, has applied to have his faun designated a Voluntary Agricultural District. Orange County adopted a Voluntary Farmland Preservation Program Ordinance (VFPPO) in 1092, which provided far the creation of Voluntary Agricultural Districts. A brochure with information about Voluntary Agricultural Districts IS attached. The County's adopted Voluntary Farmland Preservation Program Ordinance provides that the Agricultural Preservation Board is to review antl approve applications for qualifying farmland, and make recommendations to the Board of Commissioners concerning the establishment and modification of agricultural districe Sudden V of the Voluntary Farmland! Preservation Program Ordinance contains the requirements for Inclusion in a voluntary agricultural district. To be certified as qualifying fsmYand, a farm must: 1. Se parlidpatilg in Me fans present use-value taxation program established by Me N.C. General Statutes, Sections 105-277.2 through 105-277.7,or is otherwim determined by Ne County to meet all the qualifications of this program set forth in Me N.C.Consist Salutes.Sections 105-- 2713. 2. Be certifies by Me Natural Resources Conservation Service of the tinted States Department a Agriculture as being a farm on which at least Mrothinds of the land Is composed of soils Nat: a. Are bast suited for providing food,seed,Ober,forage,timber,and dl seed pops;