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46 <br /> Respondents overwhelmingly consider the most important threat to <br /> farming in Orange County to be development. <br /> What do you perceive as the most important threats to agriculture/forestry in Orange County?List up to three <br /> threats. <br /> 85 responses <br /> Development 60 <br /> Cost of land (13) <br /> Cost of infrastructure (12) <br /> Taxes (12) <br /> Inflexible regulations (9) <br /> Climate change (9) <br /> New generations not taking up farming(5) H{{ <br /> All other threats were listed by fewer than 5 respondents. <br /> 7 <br /> "As farmers age out and are dying, "Encroaching urban areas, "Housing development.This...leads <br /> their heirs are selling land to cash farmland/forest land being sold to to increased cost of land and <br /> out on its purchase value to developers for multi-family homes decreased value of land for <br /> developers.More housing and multi-family developments agricultural purposes.There's a lot <br /> complexes are being built on instead of being kept in <br /> farmland while we are losing our farm/forest" more money in selling the land for <br /> resources for soil,foodshed,and 5-10 acre lots than keeping it as an <br /> farms.This will create a crisis for [D]evelopment,particularly <br /> intact farm.None of the land I see <br /> both our environment and local <br /> sprawling development that <br /> ecosystem as well as for food encourages large(io acre) for sale around me is selling as <br /> production and water retention and lots. The county development farmland.It's simply not worth it. <br /> filtering.We need to stop policies should encourage It's subdivided into plots and houses <br /> developing every square inch of the clusters of homes leaving a <br /> county!It took me 20 years of large percent of open space are built.This leads to ecosystem <br /> working two jobs and investing to rather than making it easy to deterioration which decreases the <br /> scrape together a down payment for develop to acre lots,S acre quality of farmland as well.I'm in <br /> my small little farm.It should not lots. The problems of sprawl <br /> be like this.There needs to be more in our county are the far northern reaches of the <br /> done to save our farmland and COMPLETELY predictable county....This is not isolated <br /> counteract incentives to sell to based on the policies in place towards the southern more urban <br /> developers." currently." <br /> parts of the county.„ <br /> s <br /> 44 <br />