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8 <br /> PLANNING & ENVIRONMENT <br /> 41)Bona Fide Farm Use — Support legislation clarifying that the farm use and <br /> agriculture exemption of 153A-340 that restricts local zoning authority applies <br /> only to property on which the production of crops or livestock is the primary use. <br /> Clarify that marketing and agri-tourism activities must be secondary uses of the <br /> property and do not qualify for the exemption in the absence of the production of <br /> crops or livestock; <br /> 42)Renewable Energy — Support renewable energy initiatives available to <br /> residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural activities to create a market for <br /> energy credits. This support will provide incentives to produce renewable energy, <br /> which will become increasingly important to preserving and strengthening the <br /> economy and infrastructure, and in the case of agriculture help maintain rural <br /> heritage and culture; <br /> 43)Eminent Domain — Oppose adding language to a constitutional amendment on <br /> eminent domain that extends any further preemption of county authority to <br /> regulate the placement of telecommunication towers; <br /> 44)Fees-In-Lieu — NCDOT as Additional Recipient — Support legislation amending <br /> North Carolina General Statute 153A-331 to add a provision allowing counties to <br /> transfer fees collected as part of subdivision development, and in lieu of required <br /> street construction, to be transferred to and held by the North Carolina <br /> Department of Transportation (NCDOT) for the future construction of roads <br /> intended to be added to the State Maintained system. Presently there is no <br /> mechanism where a county can collect fees in lieu of transportation improvement <br /> construction based on conditions agreed to by both parties during a conditional <br /> zoning process. These fees may be for a developer fair share of a future <br /> comprehensive intersection improvement but would not be built by NCDOT until <br /> other funding could be assigned to do a complete improvement; <br /> 45)Land, Water and Agricultural Preservation Funding — Support Park, <br /> Agricultural Preservation, Clean Water Management and other existing trust <br /> funds established for the protection of the State's land, water, biological <br /> resources, agriculture, and special places before they are irreversibly lost, and <br /> request that these funds receive additional funding, preferably through dedicated <br /> funding sources; <br /> 46)Oppose any shift of state transportation responsibilities to counties — <br /> Oppose legislation to shift the state's responsibility for funding transportation <br /> construction and maintenance projects to counties. Counties cannot afford to <br /> assume costs for maintaining secondary roads and/or funding expansion <br /> projects; <br /> 47)Transportation Funding — Support increased state funding for transportation <br /> construction and maintenance needs, recognize Bike and Pedestrian modes of <br />