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| PURCHASE OR DONATION OF AGRICULTURAL
CONSERVATION EASEMENTS & RELATED TOOLS |
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AGRICULTURAL VIABILITY PROGRAMS
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AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT PROGRAMS & ENTERPRISE ZONE INFORMATION
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AGRICULTURAL TAX INCENTIVES
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LAND USE PLANS & ORDINANCES RELATED TO AGRICULTURE
- Marin County, CA
General
Plan
Executive
Summary for Ag Element of General Plan
- Skagit County, WA
Land
Use Element of County Comprehensive Plan, see Agricultural
- Natural Resource Lands on pg. 13 
Zoning Code, see Ag Land Preservation provision on pg. 77
Conservation Futures Program (PDR) 
- Lexington / Fayette, KY
Land
Use Element of Comprehensive Plan
see
also pg. 55 
- Montgomery County, MD
Preservation
of Agriculture and Rural Open Space Functional Master Plan
Recommendations
on clustering, TDR, and PDR 
Office
of Agricultural Services (administrator of ag programs)
- Hatfield, MA
Master
Plan, the Ag Element is on Page 38, see also section on
Development and Economic Character 
Zoning
ordinance (TDR, Sec. 6.1; cluster, Sec 6.2)
- US Department of Energy, Compendium of Land Use
Ordinances and Codes, see category, “Agricultural
Land Protection”
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WORKSHOP PRESENTATION
- Ellen Dayhoff, farmer and Director, Adams County,
PA, Agricultural Land Preserve Program
“PDRs
and Their Effect on Land Use Decisions and Ag Viability”
“Adams
County, Pennsylvania, Agricultural Land Preservation”
"Pennsylvania's
Agricultural Security Area Law"
- Bob Wagner, Assistant Vice President for field programs,
American Farmland Trust
“Incentives
to Promote Farming and Farmland Preservation”
- Jay Healy, farmer and former Commissioner of Agriculture,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
“Farm
Viability Business Skills”
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