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perpetuity if the county uses the Farmland Preservation Program to purchase the farmer’s rights to divide and sell his or her property. In counties with similar programs, a development right is purchased at $20,000 to $40,000. At $40,000, the cost to extinguish eight rights is $320,000 — about the revenue the tax would generate each year.
In Virginia Beach a 1.5-cent property tax pays for the program. Their penny-and-a-half investment offsets at least fifteen cents in future tax increases, a ten-for-one return on investment.
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