Howard County Adds Nearly 128 Acre Easement To Agricultural Land Preservation Program

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (WJZ) — Howard County Executive Calvin Ball connected Wednesday announced the region purchased 127.7 acres of farmland to adhd to its Agricultural Land Preservation Program, an inaugural to sphere farmland successful the county.

“Agriculture plays a captious relation successful Howard County, supporting our system and our environment,” said Ball. “Our farms supply locally grown food, minimize our biology footprint, and make jobs. As we face the menace of clime change, we indispensable enact thoughtful argumentation that ensures we support and sphere cultivation onshore and enactment the galore radical whose livelihoods beryllium connected our farms.”

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The wide outgo of the easement is $5.4 million, the region said. It volition beryllium funded by a 4th of the 1% section transportation taxation that is dedicated to the program.

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A husbandman whose onshore meets definite size and ungraded criteria tin connection to merchantability a perpetual easement to the County, portion owning the onshore and continuing to farm, the region said.

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The easement is an summation to the astir 22,900 acres that is already portion of the program.

CBS Baltimore Staff