Legal process for deciding future use of the land in a community. Land best suited for row, forage, and fiber crop production. Natural characteristics include level topography, good drainage, adequate moisture supply, favorable soil depth and texture, and ability to consistently produce the most food, feed, and fiber with the least fertilizer, labor, and energy. A defined privilege to use land, water, and other resources in particular ways. A government initiative for acquiring development rights to farmland and preserving agricultural use.
Landowners retain ownership while agreeing to keep land in agriculture.
Like PACE, an initiative in which the government or land trust purchases the development rights to farmland to preserve agricultural use. In this voluntary program, landowners retain ownership while agreeing to keep land in agriculture. Zone established for housing of various densities and varieties. Subdivision controls set forth standards that are used to ensure orderly community growth. A program that allows landowners to transfer the right to develop one parcel of land to a more suitable parcel of land in order to prevent farmland conversion.