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13 ORANGE COUNTY ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT MEMORANDUM To: Agricultural Preservation Board From: Tina Moon, Cultural Resources Specialist Date: September 10, 2008 Subject: McAdams Properties LLC, Voluntary Agricultural District Application Copies: David Stancil, ERC Director In April Howard McAdams submitted an application to include the McAdams Farm in the Voluntary Agricultural District (VAD) Program. As you can see from the attached map and soils analysis chart, the farm is located along both sides of Efland-Cedar Grove Road in Checks Township. The McAdams have identified three parcels for inclusion in the VAD program. Together the parcels total just less than 192 acres. Section V. of the Orange County Voluntary Farmland Protection Ordinance (VFPO) outlines the required application procedure. Once the application is deemed complete ERCD staff forwards it to the Tax Assessor and Natural Resources Conservation Service to ensure that the property meets specific criteria. ERCD staff received the attached memoranda from NRCS and the Tax Assessor certifying all three parcels as qualifying farmland, eligible to participate in the VAD program. The next step in the process is for the Agricultural Preservation Board (APB) to determine whether it wishes to recommend the application to the Board of County Commissioners. Please review the attached materials and relevant sections of the VFPO, and be prepared to consider this application for VAD status. Should the Agricultural Preservation Board decide to recommend the McAdams Farm for inclusion in the County's Voluntary Agricultural District program, ERCD staff will forward the recommendation along with the appropriate agenda materials to the Board of County Commissioners for their review and consideration. The McAdams Farm would be the second farm in the High Rock-Efland Voluntary Agricultural District.