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that assessment under land use had gone down from $1,800 to between $500 and $400 per acre and was a significant factor in keeping county dairy operations in business.
In emphasizing the need for revisions in land use tax regulations. Beard acknowledged that “there’s just no way to draw up the same pattern” to fit all 63 counties with land use. “But we’re going to have to try to get the pattern so it will fit more people than it’s fitting right now, he said.
“We can't preserve open space with just planning and zoning,” interjected Fauquier Planning Director Dick McNear. "Land use law can help if the loopholes are plugged, particularly after the state goes to 100 per cent assessment."
RLEP president Phil Irwin asked if the General Assembly was going to address problems and loopholes in the recently adopted Agriculture and Forestal Districts Act. New York state’s agricultural districts are effective tools in controlling land use but Virginia’s law was shot full of holes by interests in Richmond so that it's now a worthless bit of legislation, according to Irwin. Beard indicated that AF Districts would also be
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