Agriculture Retention and Development Act
The Agriculture Retention and Development Act of 1981 bought permanent deed restrictions on New Jersey farms so that they had to always remain as farms, and could never be sold for housing or for non-farming commercial development.[1][2]
History
In 1976 the state started a pilot program.[3] The effect was to slow farmland loss in the state.[2] By 1994 it had saved 22,080 acres (89.4 km2).[1]
External links
- "Agriculture Retention and Development Act". New Jersey. Archived from the original on 2008-06-03. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
References
- ^ a b Carney, Leo H. (November 20, 1994). "Farmland Preservation Is Lagging". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
- ^ a b "Two Breaks Coming For Farmers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. January 26, 1983.
Gov. Kean is expected to sign two major bills affecting the future of farming in New Jersey at a ceremony today the 68th State Agricultural Convention in Cherry Hill. One of those bills, the Agriculture Retention and Development Act, seeks to keep New Jersey green by having the government buy development rights to farms threatened with sale to residential and commercial developers. The second bill, called the Right-to-Farm Act, limits the power of state agencies and local governments to ... One of those bills, the Agriculture Retention and Development Act, seeks to keep New Jersey green by having the government buy development rights to farms ...
- ^ Janson, Donald (August 23, 1976). "Jersey to Test a Program to Preserve Agriculture and Open Space in State". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-16.
The State Department of Agriculture has leased the ground floor of the 19th-century white frame Town Hall here as field headquarters for a program that soon will seek to persuade owners of farmland in the area to take $5 million in taxpayers' money.