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At the end of the eight years, the district could be dissolved, altered, or continued for another period of eight years, Zigler explained. As to opponents, “some have argued that it would cut down on your equity in the farm, that it would reduce the amount you could borrow on the farm. Well, all I can say is that if you borrow on your speculative value, I don’t know if you should be in farming at all.”
QUESTIONS then started coming from the audience. Why 500 acres? Why not something smaller, like 300 acres? Because, replied Hiram Zigler, the expense and red tape involved would be “almost prohibitive” for smaller tracts. Do the people requesting a district have to be all landowners? Yes, but in New York, towns can be left out of districts; they can even be surrounded by districts, which acts as a sort of “green belt.”
More questions. How would zoning be affected? The district would supersede all zoning ordinances within the district, said Zigler. r
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