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Principles
• Principle 1
To encourage agricultural operations and ensure the preservation of the productivity, availability and use of agricultural lands for continued production of agricultural products
Policies
• Sponsor a Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) program to facilitate the preservation of important agricultural lands that cannot be preserved through other means.
• Support use-value taxation and other fiscal programs that help to alleviate economic burdens on owners of agricultural, horticultural and forested land and continue land use planning to protect agricultural
land from escalating assessments.
The above are edited excerpts from Chapter 6 of the comprehensive plan. The. emphasis and underline of item 11 in principle 1 is mine. A re-read of the plan is helpful at this time of important decisions.
Monira Rifaat
Washington
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