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treatment under which property is taxed on the basis of its productive value for farming and forestry rather than its fair market value for development. But an ag district must be a minimum of 500 contiguous acres, a requirement that prompted the Rappahannock supervisors to adopt countywide land use. “If just four or five farmers are denied relief because they couldn’t get in an ag district, it would be a dirty thing,” maintained local farmer B. Settle at the public hearing held in June,,. 1980, on a county-wide use' value ordinance. Voicing concern for the small farmers who can’t combine their holdings to reach the minimum of 500 contiguous acres, a majority of the supervisors — H. B. Wood, Dick Latham and Clarence Baldwin — voted in favor of county-wide use value legislation.
Unaware Of Wording
On Tuesday. Baumgardner acknowledged that he hadn't realized the ordinance adopted in 1980 was worded so as to possibly require readoption. “My impression was that use value taxation would continue unless the supervisors took action to rescind it," he said. The question on wording of the ordinance was posed by clerk Diane Bruce, he added, noting that he'd immediately looked into the issue and alerted the supervisors.
At the June I, 1980, public hearing. H. B. Wood introduced the motion to adopt county:wide use value taxation. A poll of the members found the board (Continued on Page 2)
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