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The Virginia Farm Bureau Federation is dismayed and alarmed at recommendations by the Chesapeake Bay Local Assistance Board which established final local land-use criteria June 28 for the bay cleanup.
Instead of the anticipated 25-foot buffer strip between cropland and waterways for farmers, the board increased that provision to 100-foot buffer strips for all farmland in bay preservation areas.
“The agriculture community lent its support to the bay board’s original intent of a 25-foot buffer strip for farmers,” explained VFBF president Wayne Ashworth.
“We thought that was a fair and reasonable compromise we could live with. Instead, we got very, very broad, sweeping restrictions on how this precious farmland can be used,” Mr. Ashworth said.
Farm Bureau, the state’s largest farm organization, believes this ruling w'ill encourage more farmers to sell out to developers. “Forcing farmers to idle productive acres will raise the legal issue of a regulatory taking of private property,” Mr. Ashworth added.
“This board just decided that the development business is a more important economic entity in Tidewa
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