timb
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Anyone familiar with or taking part in a Pennsylvania "Agricultural Security Area"? Any comments on the pluses/minuses?
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Agricultural security areas are intended to promote more permanent and viable farming operations over the long term by strengthening the farming community's sense of security in land use and the right to farm. Agricultural security areas are created by local municipalities in cooperation with individual landowners who agree to collectively place at least 250 acres in an agricultural security area. )</font>
Just spotted a tiny legal notice in the local classifieds - apparently a local area very close to me is either up for it's seven-year review - or a new one is being formed. I may be able to include my property although there were minimum income-from-farming restrictions at one time that I won't be able to make for a few years yet. Not all the sites I've been able to browse mention that anymore.
There's some more info at: Farmland Preservation
Some of the clauses in there become even more timely given the Supreme Court's recent proclamation on use of eminent domain.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Agricultural security areas are intended to promote more permanent and viable farming operations over the long term by strengthening the farming community's sense of security in land use and the right to farm. Agricultural security areas are created by local municipalities in cooperation with individual landowners who agree to collectively place at least 250 acres in an agricultural security area. )</font>
Just spotted a tiny legal notice in the local classifieds - apparently a local area very close to me is either up for it's seven-year review - or a new one is being formed. I may be able to include my property although there were minimum income-from-farming restrictions at one time that I won't be able to make for a few years yet. Not all the sites I've been able to browse mention that anymore.
There's some more info at: Farmland Preservation
Some of the clauses in there become even more timely given the Supreme Court's recent proclamation on use of eminent domain.