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- From: "askpv" <askpv AT ozemail.com.au>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: RE: [Market-farming] question about zoning
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:18:55 +1100
This is a typical example of the incredibly diverse choices
people can make when population pressures turn ag land into urban.
It doesn't take any skill at all to simply subdivide and put people
into little boxes that
they drive further to work and back to pay for the box
(house) that is mostly empty all day
while they pay for it.
there are many
other examples of wonderful transitions.
you write of the land not being
great for agriculture, but it could
be developed really cleverly into an
semi-urban agricultral hamlet, with water harvest systems, organic matter
collection (soil improvement) turning poor farming land into rich food forests
between the houses.
no i am not dreaming it has been done many times before
in dryer and more
inhospitable places such as Davis, California and the
homes
(not to mention the lifestyles) are far more sought out by buyers
than
the conventional boxes across the road.
If i had the chance to develop something i would plan a brighter
future for the planet as well as myself and there's no guilt in
that.
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[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org]On
Behalf Of
Christianne White
Sent: Sunday, 2 November 2003 5:27 PM
To:
market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Market-farming] question about
zoning
Dear Market -farmers, our town wants to change our 148 acres
from medium
density residential zoning to agricultural. My aunt never
developed the
farm, but was against this change as it limited our options
with no real
benefit to us. She's dead now. Isn't it ironic for
it to hurt farmers to
zone their land agricultural?! We want to keep the land
agricultural in
nature, but it was never great farmland to begin with...rocky
and steep
among other things. I feel naiive about what's at stake
here. I feel
dishonest to argue against ag zoning when it's right in
line with what I
hope to do with the land, but it doesn't seem smart to give
up so much
potential land value for nothing. There's no guarantee of
lower tax
rates...the county, not the town,assesses the property. Can
anybody comment
on what their zoning is and how it affects them? Thanks,
Steep Hollow
Farm
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[Market-farming] question about zoning,
Christianne White, 11/02/2003
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Re: [Market-farming] question about zoning,
Tom at Limerock, 11/02/2003
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RE: [Market-farming] question about zoning,
Marie Kamphefner, 11/02/2003
- [Market-farming] Re: zoning - CAUV, Tom at Limerock, 11/03/2003
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RE: [Market-farming] question about zoning,
Marie Kamphefner, 11/02/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] question about zoning, Robert Farr, 11/02/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] question about zoning, robert schuler, 11/02/2003
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RE: [Market-farming] question about zoning,
askpv, 11/02/2003
- Re: [Market-farming] question about zoning, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 11/03/2003
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