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By daphne McCullough
Rappahannock New, Staff Writer
Use value taxation hasn’t saved agricultural land from development, according to Paxton Marshall. Instead, the program has only delayed the switch of farm land to more intensive use for an average of 1.3 years while loopholes in the law have allowed developers to profit.
Marshall, VPI extension specialist in public affairs and one of Virginia’s leading authorities on land use, made his remarks at a VPI sponsored meeting on local government issues held in Manassas on Thursday, May
While Marshall questioned the success of use value taxation in controlling Piedmont Virginia’s devastating problem with development sprawl, he held out hope for changes in the year-old Agricultural and Forest al District Act that would make it an effective weapon to combat the disappearance of agricultural land.
Marshall acknowledged that use value taxation — which provides for land to be taxed at below market value as long as it remains in agriculture, forest, horticulture or open space — soarks “questions of equity in regard to bona fide land ...There’s a lot of debate on those five acre parcels that just qualify (especially when) the parcels are clearly intended for development.” Use value taxation was initially declared r* ~ 1 i
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