Engine Magazine Preservation
Engine Magazine Preservation
Conservation of farmland in California - one of the groups both
Every minute of Every Day, America loses two acres of farmland to urban, commercial or residential Development1 In California, about 50,000 hectares of agricultural land is held every year.2 If trends continue, another 2 million acres in California will be opened by 2050.3 As farmers are increasingly under pressure to make the land fertile in non-agricultural developments, 1970 warning lyric - We will "open the paradise for a parking lot" - is now an imminent threat too. Is our desire to raise our children in a rural virgin suddenly unavailable? Will we one day find that following our dreams of peaceful country life have I escaped from his hands?
Looking about our past and a look at our offer of hope for the future and practical solutions.
"Over More Than 300 years, the ambitious and energetic poured into those vast regions [California], the establishment of missions, towns, farms, mining camps, forts, ports, military bases, universities and cities, "writes Sylvia Wright of the University of California at Davis Magazine in 2005." Feeding all these builders were not farmers, dairy, gardeners, market gardeners and producers of grain. "4
"At first," Wright continues, "Providers food from the farm and the farm next to the colonies ... However, these sites are to the cities and suburbs in the top of the best state agricultural remaining in a folder, and acceleration. "5
After the Second World War, farmland and open spaces in California began to face increasing pressure conversion. In response, the first of two main ways to protect farmland in California has seen in 1965 when the Act was passed Williamson. To volunteer to keep their land preserved in a 10-year contract, owners are a tax cut. It was an immediate success.
However, in California, still looking, and in 1984, the Protection Division land resources has been recognized and in 1995, the second important tool for protecting farmland - California Agrolândia Conservation Program - has been created. Under this program scholarship, the owners sell development rights to their property in perpetuity to a land trust, retaining the right to use the land for agricultural purposes. It worked.
UC Santa Barbara study reports 2002 that most conversions of farmland between 1960 and 1980 and declined steadily increasing since.6 "If it can be argued that agricultural land is gradually converted to residential use, "the report continues," the expansion proponents argue that rural parks and wilderness areas were more numerous in consequence. "7
In San Luis Obispo, two tools Additional protection of agricultural land have been made - Agriculture Group ordinance adopted in 1984, and the transfer of funds from the program adopted for development in 1996. The first provides that owners can double the number of homes allowed on the property, provided they focus on 5% of the earth, leaving the other 95% is a space more open or agricultural use. This indicates that the development rights can be transferred to a designated area for Conservation (the site of delivery) a specific growth area (the site of reception.) Once those rights are transferred, the site will batch delivery protected by applying a conservation easement in perpetuity.8
The successful use of these tools can be seen AG Projects poles and winning in San Luis Obispo Varian Ranch. Aiming to preserve valuable agricultural resources in San Luis Obispo, RRM Design Group has created the development plan for this 48-unit residential cluster development located at least 60 acres of property of 3127 acres. Pursuant to Order in agriculture County cluster, the project retains the agricultural use of the property while providing the intensification of agricultural operations (use of capital generated by residential development). The 3,067-acre undeveloped was put in a farm and preserve open space living easement.9
These same tools are also working on a draft proposal of Las Ventanas nearing completion this year, just above the valley of Arroyo Grande. Based on a cattle 150 years of work, these 56 home sites occupy only 125 acres of more than 4,000 hectares of land grant history Talley family. "In the long term and a commitment to quality are the hallmarks of our history of four generations in the Valley Arroyo Grande, "said Brian Talley, Talley quick-son Oliver, who began farming there in the 1940s." We believe Las Ventanas is the ultimate expression of those beliefs. "
Talley Farms is a diversified farm grows vegetables, grapes tank, lemons and avocados. Talley Vineyards, founded in 1986, is the family estate. "The idea of my father was to preserve our farmland high efficiency, allowing very limited development on slopes that are not conducive to agriculture, he said Talley. "Therefore our farms, vineyards and pastures are now protected against the development always with permanent easement open space.
Most windows continue to operate as it has over the past 150 years - as a cattle ranch. "
He is considered by many as a win-win, AG group, with other newly developed tools for farmland protection is an opportunity for owners of fair market value they deserve, while preserving precious farmland forever, and homebuyers with the opportunity to build and live in the bucolic setting of their dreams.
"The more I received," said Talley, "but I have confidence in market solutions. This is a solution based on the market. And, following the legacy of my family, we are preserving this that is productive based on what is not productive - in the bottom of the valley. "
In order to protect sensitive resources, such as the view shed and oak, Talley worked with the San Luis Obispo County Planning and Building Department to relocate the sites of origin. It has also worked with the County Department of Parks to align the multi track to improve its utility, reduce environmental impact, and minimize conflicts with agriculture. And with the help of the Corps of Engineers U.S. Army to design an arch culvert mitigate the disruption of a seasonal stream. Open, cooperative relationships with state and county regulatory agencies are essential to the success of developments such as Las Ventanas in time.
Clustered among the oaks and hills with panoramic views of the ocean and mountains, and farms and vineyards Talley, 2 or homepage of 3 hectares of Las Ventanas will attract discerning buyers, because they invest in maintaining land. Protected forever by a permanent open space agreement, Las Ventanas and communities, if they offer the hope that we can live with the land without destroying it.
1. Protection issues "Agricultural land - farmland Trust of America, in April 2007.
2. "Vanish" Sylvia Wright, citing Al Sokolow retired UC Davis Cooperative Extension specialist in land use at UC Davis Magazine, Winter 2005
3. "Paving Paradise: A new perspective on the conversion of farmland in California - American Farmland Trust, April 2008
4. "On the disappearance of" Sylvia Wright, Journal of the University of California Davis, Winter 2005
5. Ibid.
6. "Predicting the spatial development pressures in the county St. Louis Bishop:
Is Transferable Development Credit program control urban sprawl? "- Casso, Dietenhofen, Eichel, Huang. UCSB 2002
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. www.rrmdesign.com
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