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HEIDELBERG TOWNSHIP
LEWGH COUNTY PENNA.
This map shows the proposed zoning
divisions being considered by the Lehigh
County's Heidelberg Township to insure their
farming community is safeguarded.
Heildelberg Township has a total area of
15 -835 acres of which 12,623 acres are in
agriculture or vacaht (1978 census).-There are
1,595 acres of prime farmland and 9,270 acres
of additional farmland of statewide im
portance.
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Heidelberg Twp.
(Continued from Page Al)
Permitted uses include
agriculture, single family
detached dwellings and certain
community facilities, such as
churches, with a minimum lot size
of one acre.
Village Center • the existing
villages of Germansville and
Pleasant Comer. Permitted uses
include stores and offices, non
nuisance industry, and certain
community facilities with
minimum lot sizes of 20,000'square
feet; and single family detached
dwellings with a minimum lot size
0f30,000 square feet.
Overlying all these zoning
definitions is an environmetally
protected area designation. This
would include areas of high water
tables, flood plains and steep
areas. Here the minimum lot size
would be three acres.
What was the public’s reaction to
these proposals, seemingly in the
fanner’s favor?.
Comments and questions were
primarily negative. Several
testimonies received rounds of
applause from the audience.'
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Here are some nf the
statements:
* "Who's going to pay the
development rights .for keeping
this land in' agriculture? The
farmers are the ones who are going
to pay because their land will be
zoned agriculture and won’t
qualify for payment? ”
* "Let farmers do with their
land as they please. It’s giir only
pension when we get old.”
* "Who’s going to farm all that
land that’s in the agricultural
zone? We’re getting too old and the
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VC Village Center District
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District Boundaries
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, October 24,1981—A27
i Lu mci's won i waul u> lai'in
it all.”
★ “You’re taking away the
farmer’s economic base. If a
farmer’s most valuatye asset is
eroded, you erode his equity and he
won’t be able to get loans.
“The state and federal govern
ment assess agricultural land
lower than residential land, so the
land will be worth less if it’s zoned
specifically for agricultural uses.
“What is your hurry? There is a
move to pay farmers for their
development rights, as they are
attempting to do on Long Island.
But, if the farmer doesn’t have any
development rights, be won’t get
paid.
“The effect of this ordinance is
exclusionary. What you are trying
to do is preserve the status quo.
What you want to do is preserve
that com field across the street as
open space at the sake of the
farmer.”
* “The whole thing is unfair. By
zoning almost everything
agricultural, you’ll be adding to
the surpluses and lower prices
farmers are already ex
periencing.”
* “When you pay taxes on your
land, you should have a choice in
what you can do with it. Our land is
our pension—we must rely on it.”
* “How can anyone start far
ming today with prices the way
they- are? It’s tough to get started
without collaterol. If you devalue
the property by zoning it
agricultural, there will be no
collaterol.”
* "Three acres per home is a lot
of waste.”
* "The state of lowa, one of the
nation’s most productive farming
areas, is losing acres of farmland
through erosion caused by far
mers. There land, which used to
have topsoil several feet thick, now
has only a few inches of topsoil.
This loss is worse than losing
farmland to development.
“Here in Heidelberg Township,
the soil is shale and gravel. What
you have is a terrific lobbying
effort to- save a few small far
mers.”
* “We’re not against the con
cept of preserving farmland. The
danger here is dealing with the
problem on the local level with
local farmers paying the price.
“Farmers shouldn’t have -to
volunteer their land. It's not our
farmland it’s everybody's
farmland.
"If a farmer wants his land to
stay m farming, let him sign a
voluntary deed restriction. And
Eight to Farm legislation will take
care of nuisance ordinances so that
a farmer- doesn’t need the ag
zoning to protect him from
neighbors complaing about noise
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Also testifying were represen
tatives from two York. County
townships who have had'a similar
zontng ordinances in effect for the
past five years.
Clarence Nace of Shrewsbury
Township, York County, farms
about 400 acres of land, raising
grain, and also serves on the
township board. He shared with
the group that their biggest con
cern the devaluing of farmland
after zoning it agricultural
hasn’t happened in Shrewsbury
Township.
“There is increased competition
between fanners for land. And now
there’s an incentive for young
people to get into fanning
something they didn’t have before
zoning. Zoning gave fanners the
incentive to expand their
operations, knowing they would be
protected against development
pressures,” Nace said. “Since land
prices increased, farms were
actually worth more as farms
after zoning.”
York County dairyman David
Stewart told the group about Peach
Botton Township’s experience with
this type of zoning. He pointed out
this type of zoning keeps good
farmland intact, not chopped up by
development on the best land since
it restricts housing to areas un
suitable for farming.
“Our farmland value went from
$6OO an acre for farming to about
|3,000 an acre for farming since
this zoning was enacted six years
ago,” Stewart recalled.
Adding his comments was York
County attorney Gilbert-Malone.
He reviewed a study conducted by
the county’s board of realtors to
study the impact of ag zoning on
property value..'
“What we found was property in
townships with ag zoning in
creased in value equally with land
in townships without ag zoning.
The major difference was' that the
people who were buying in ag
zones were farmers whereas those
buying in non-ag-zoned areas were
speculators,” reported Malone.
“The loss of ag land is a serious
national problem three million
acres are lost each year. If this
problem is not dealt with at the
local level, the state or federal
government will step in as they did
before with our over-flowing septic
tanks and safety at work by for
ming DER and OSHA.”
As a result of the public com
ment and questions, the planning
committee agreed to look into the
problem of what happens if a
farmer wishes to keep a four or
five acre lot for himself when he
sells the farm; and ■clarifying the
requirement that 50 percent of a
product sold at the farm be
homegrown. ,