A26—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 17,1984
Allentown conference stresses
ALLENTOWN - Township,
county, and state officials
gathered in Allentown last week to
discuss protecting the state’s
farmlands at the Farmland
Protection Conference. Co-spon
sored by the Lehigh County Farm
er’s Association and the Lehigh
County Extension Service, the
conference introduced the concept
of land evaluation and site
assessment (LESA) to the plan
ning officials.
Developed by Lloyd Wright, land
use division, U.S. Soil conservation
Service, Washington, D.C., LESA
is a system designed to protect the
best farmland in an area by
evaluating its agricultural quality
and viability. It helps land use
decision makers put the protection
of farmland as a priority in their
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zoning decisions.
LESA is based on a point system
of 300 points with a maximum of
100 points assigned to land
evaluation and 200 points assigned
to site assessment. A higher point
value designates farmland to be
protected in the system. The
system has the flexibility to ac
commodate differences among
states and localities and eliminates
any bias when making land use
decisions.
In addressing the governmental
officials, Wright stated that a
system for land evaluation is used
to carry out federal policy. The
SCS offices handle the land
evaluation and make the findings
available to each locality.
Site assessment is left to the
local level of government, either
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the county or township. “We found
it (LESA) works better if you put
more emphasis on site
erence in Allentown include, from the left,
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assessment,” Wright stated. Site
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centage of agriculture within one
and one-half miles of the site, the
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