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(Continued from Page 1) looking out for our farmlands more than we have been,” said Johnson, in explaining his application. America has spent the last few decades worshipping ribbons of highway and cloverleafs, he continued. “When they finish the day’s travel, I believe they’ll want to eat," Johnson said.
He told the planners that he’d notified his neighbors of his application and found them all in favor although none of the nearby landowners had expressed any interest in joining the district.
By letter, since he was unable to attend Wednesday’s meeting, planning commissioner E. P. Luke stated his support .for the district “with no reservations.”
The rest of the commissioners voted unanimously to recommend approval to the supervisors who must now hold their own public hearing and act on the application.
Preservation Tool
The Virginia General Assembly adopted enabling legislation for agricultural and forestal districts as a means of preserving and protecting agricultural land and encouraging its continued use for food and fiber production.
Qualifying land within an approved ag district is eligible for use value taxation whether or not the locality has adopted a county-wide use value taxation ordinance. If the land receiving use
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