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one half of the land in the water shed area of any impoundment must be under a basic conservation plan in order to qualify for federal financing of the water project. The conservation plans are entirely voluntary, he continued, and can be nulified with 60 days written notice from the landowner.
Tax System Revisions
“The thing that worries me is that if we pass this and land use tax goes on forestry land, then the Board will have to make a revision of the county’s whole tax system,” interjected Supervisor Chairman Gordon. Otherwise, he continued, the county would be taxing different owners of forestry land at different rates, with only forestry land inside AF Districts receiving a tax break.
(Orange County previously approved land use tax on agricultural land—not on open space and forestry property).
Supervisor R. Monroe Waugh charged that approval of the AF District applications would penalize small land and home owners by shifting the tax burden to them. “You talk about conserving...What you want,
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