Farmland Preservation Program Gets Last Minute Reprieve
(Conlinuad from Pag* A3l)
toxic wastes that may be illegally
dumped on the land (governing
bodies are now considered only
easement holders and take on no
additional liability interest in the
land).
Miller said a Yprk County com
missioner had pushed for the
extension because that county
still without an approved plan for
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a number of items Wednesday.
According to Barry Frantz, a
soil conservationist and staff mem
ber on the state Bureau of Farm
land Protection, Mongtomery
County became the sixth county to
receive approval of its easement
purchasing plan.
Other counties already set up to
purchase such easements include
Berks, Bucks, Chester, Lancaster
and Lehigh counties.
Montgomery has put up local
money in past two years and
received allocations enabling the
county officials to spend almost $4
million to secure farmland deve
lopment rights.
Frantz said that in 1989, Mont
gomery put up $400,000 and
received an additional $1,661,106
in state funds. In 1990, the south
eastern county set aside $200,000
more of its own money and
received an additional $1,310,417
in state matching and grant funds.
According to Frantz, the
approved Montgomery County
plan is unique, but that each county
plan is different in some respects.
“None of the programs have
been like the others,” Frantz said.
“I think it (Montgomery County’s
plan) follows a similar tact of
Berks, Bucks and Lehigh in that it
is targeting more rural areas.”
He explained that the Lancaster
County plan is targeted at getting
development rights on farms at the
edge of urban spread.
In other action, Frantz said the
board on Wednesday approved
some minor changes to the Berks
County program.
“They changed some of the fac
tors in farm evaluation systems,
basically taking a five-mile radius,
lowering it to two miles,” he said.
“Also in Berks County, in deter
mining appraisal, they will not be
considering zoning classification.
“The last one (change to Berks
County program), when surveying
a property that is to be in the prog
ram, if a survey is required by the
county, but partially to the benefit
of the landowner, the cost of doing
the survey would be pro-rated,
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derived,” Frantz said.
In Lancaster County, the board
Wednesday approved spending
additional funds toward additional
costs for legal fees, recording fees
and title insurance on four farms
which already had closing down
on the easements.
The additional funds amounted
to less that $1,500 per farm,
according to Frantz.
The board also approved the
purchase of the 221-acre Harold
Trimble family farm in Drumore
Township for an approved ease
ment price of $162,000.
Frantz said the farm was
described as being a 161-herd
dairy operation.
He said that although Lancast
rians have previously undergone
purchasing of development ease
ments without state help, the
Trimble farm has become the
largest and sixth farm to have been
purchased by the leading county
with the help of state money.
The county has contributed
$40,500 toward the purchase of the
Trimble farm, Frantz said. The
remainder comes from state funds.
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