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available source ol agricultural, horticultural and forest products and of open spaces within reach of concentrations of population, to conserve natural resources in forms which will prevent erosion, to protect adequate and safe water supplies, to preserve scenic natural beauty and open spaces and to promote land-use planning and the orderly development of real estate for the accommodation of an expanding population, and (b) to promote a balanced economy and ameliorate pressures which force the conversation of such real estate to more intensive uses and which are attributable in part to the assessment of such real estate at values incompatible with its use and preservation for agricultural, horticultural, forest or open space purposes,
“It is the intent of this article to provide for the classification, and permit the assessment and taxation, of such real estate in a manner that will promote the preservation of it ultimately for the public benefit.”
In other words, the use-value tax system is designed to reduce tax pressures that might force the conversion of rural land to more intensive uses. It focuses entirely on the uses of land, and says nothing about the owners of land. It suggests^ that important crop land, ground-water recharge areas, and scenery ought to be protected no matter who the owners are.
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