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Farmland
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Fire Hall. Sharon Pierce, president of the RCCA, presented McCarthy with a $5,000 check from the group to help the “Farmland Preservation Program.”
What
landowners think
In interviews conducted by a reporter at an earlier time, landowners and farmers were asked their thoughts on the new program. Stonewall-Hawthome District Supervisor Bob Anderson said the program sounded like one more good option for the preservation of land.
“I think it’s a good idea,” Anderson said. “I’m just not sure how it’s going to work. Say you sold your development rights 10 years ago. What would they be worth now? With land values being what they are, I don’t see how the county’s price can keep up with the actual value of the land.”
McCarthy acknowledges that rising land values are a factor.
“That’s a risk you take,” McCarthy said. “It’s got to be somebody dedicated to keeping the land as it is, but needs money.”
Thornton Hill Farm owner Bill Fletcher said that he didn’t think the county could ever keep up with commercial land values. -
“But that’s not necessarily the point,” Fletcher said. “The concern is what’s best for the people. I think it’s an excellent program and I hope it’s successful.”
Fletcher added that he thought the people chosen to sit on the committee to review applications were “good people.”
The Farmland Preservation Program Committee, appointed by the Board of
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