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Design of Programs Using Transferable Development Rights to Preserve Farmland in the Northeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Carl C. Mabbs-Zeno
Carl C. Mabbs-Zeno*
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Economics and Statistics Service, Natural Resource Economics Division, USDA
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Permanent conversion of agricultural land to urban uses has concerned both suppliers and demanders of agricultural products in recent years. Although controversy on the importance of the problems associated with this conversion persists among economists (General Accounting Office, Healy, Plaut), policymakers across the nation have accepted the preservation of farmland as a goal requiring government action. All but two States (Georgia and Mississippi) provide some form of preferential property tax assessment for farmland (Davies and Beiden). Most localities with zoning authority attempt to protect farmland, and several less common land use management institutions have been implemented with farmland preservation as a principal goal.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , October 1981 , pp. 57 - 62
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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