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New creation of farmland (or 'agricultural land conversion') will rely on the conversion and development of previous forests, savannas or grassland. Recreation of farmland from wasteland, deserts or previous impervious surfaces is considerably less frequent because of the degraded or missing fertile soil in the latter.
This conversion was to be done within a certain proximity to metropolitan cities that maintain existing farming that would fall threat to residential intrusion. [9] Outside of metropolitan areas, there was a push to adopt agricultural zoning for farmland in rural areas.
Phase I of the Farmlands Program was to acquire the development rights of 60 farms. The Legislature allocated 21 million dollars for this phase of the program. The approved appraised value for the development rights to the 60 farms came to $10,175,000, which was a substantial reduction in value from the original offers made to the owners.
Apr. 19—HUBER HEIGHTS — A developer has plans to construct a subdivision of 197 townhome apartments, along with five commercial outlots, on a parcel of farmland on Executive Boulevard in Huber ...
The system is the most recent of the three main survey systems. It began to be widely employed in the United States in the 19th century when cities began to expand into the surrounding farmland. The owners of a large tract of land would create a plat and subdivide the tract into a series of smaller lots to be sold to buyers. This subdivision ...
To the east. Drive three miles east of Pittsboro’s downtown, and you’ll find Chatham Park, an 8,500-acre master-planned community currently under development along U.S. 15-501 and U.S. 64. ...
In the United States, the creation of a subdivision was often the first step toward the creation of a new incorporated township or city.Contemporary notions of subdivisions rely on the Lot and Block survey system, which became widely used in the 19th century as a means of addressing the expansion of cities into surrounding farmland.
That means a little less than 1,200 acres of Fayette County farmland could be used for solar production in coming years. East Kentucky Power Cooperative filed its paperwork with the state’s ...