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preferential assessment for qualifying property under which land is taxed on its capacity for agricultural, forestal or horticultural production rather than its market value for subdivision or other speculative development.
Virginia’s General Assembly passed enabling legislation in 1973 to allow localities the option of use value taxation as a means of preserving open space and agricultural and forest lands. To participate in a land use assessment program. a property owner must meet criteria on parcel size, and history and value in farm, forest or horticultural production. Open space
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