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rurai-uruan mnge. in xaox, Fairfax was one of Virginia’s strong agricultural counties, with 1800 farms on 128,000 acres. Her rolling hills and green fields, livestock and dairy farms were a source of beauty to most of the people who saw her.” Today, Fairfax has less than 30,000 acres of farmland and almost no dairy farms. Frost estimated only about 30,000 of the 90,000 acres retired from farm use was needed for industrial, commercial and residential developments. “The rest,” he said, “has been absorbed in urban sprawl through investment speculations, which all too often has provided an unsightly countryside where the county has had to build highways and supply water and sewer systems, electric utilities, and schools to serve the needs of a “leapfrog” development.”
Frost pointed out that the real estate tax on eight typical Fairfax farms has increased from an average of 68 cents per acre to nearly $30 per acre since 1950. '
“Tax assessment policies also frequently penalize the land owner who attempts to improve his timber stands and favors thei one who lets his land grow up in less desirable trees and non-productive brush,” he added.
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