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iana use win necessitate expanding the staff of the commissioner of revenue’s office in order to process applications. He said he would much rather have a volunteer citizen’s committee interested in the county evaluating applicants for agricultural and forestal districts than a paid employee evaluating applications for general land use. The bureaucracy involved with formation of anag district, criticized repeatedly by Miller and others, is a one-time situation, Krebser said, while paricipants in general land use must reapply every year i in a continuing bureaucratic process.
Commitment To Farming
The eight year commitment involved with ag districts “will tell uS who’s really intersted in staying in farming,*’ the doctor continued. Adoption of a general use value taxation ordinance, on the other hand, will say “Why commitment yourself because the county’s going to give you land use,” Krebser maintained.
While ag districts require 500 contiguous acres, once that minimum is reached, landowners within a mile of the boundaries may join, he pointed out, citing this as an option that already allows small farmers the opportunity for land use.
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