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“The basic ordinance that controls county land use is the zoning ordinance. An agricultural district can be superimposed...but if there was a question on what would predominate in regard to what uses are permitted, the zoning ordinance would take precedence.”
He added that a use not compatible with ag district rquirements would void a land owner’s use value tax status.
Marshall emphasized that road maintenance would be considered farm related and would be continued in an ag district. Widening of a road that would make land more suitable for subdivision would “come under serious scrutiny,” he said.
Copeland told Culpeper Planning Commission Chairman Gen. Andrew Boyle that he doubted that a farmer would join an ag district solely for the tax advantage. Instead, he maintained farmers would go into districts for “zoning...It gives him the privilege to carry on farm enterprise.”
Marshall agreed. He predicted farmers would join districts not for the use value tax but as a means of protecting their business investment by trying to restrain development pressures on the land.
If ag districts are set up only in rural counties where development pressures are not intense, Jacks doubted if the Agricultural and Forestal District Act would have the intended effect of controlling land speculation. He questioned whether the incentives offered in ag districts were strong enough to counter potential land development profits in counties like Prince William, Loudoun and Fairfax. But, he added that adoption of districts could “be justified anywhere.”
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