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The Rappahannock Farmers’ Association (RFA) has issued the following 20-point “vision statement”; what it hopes the county will be like in 20 years:
1. The county’s land use policy remains basically the same as it is today.
2. The county’s zoning code continues to require a minimum of 25 acres per dwelling on agricultural land.
3. The county’s policy of encouraging agricultural and fore8tal districts remains intact.
4. Development has increased, but for the most part is concentrated near to, and within, the county’s villages.
5. The number of farmland acres protected by conservation easements has increased substantially.
6. In addition to conservation easements, farmland owners increasingly are preserving their holdings by means of agricultural easements.
7. The Commonwealth has adopted a program of transferable development rights (TDRs) which, in turn, the , county has put in place and from which farmers are benefitting.
8. Legislation and funding with which to implement a purchase of development rights (PDRs) program are in existence and are being used on a substantial scale to protect county agricultural land.
9. There are more persons, particularly women, farming in the county than in 1992.
10. The county’s population
89.5%