Important Agricultural Lands

Policies must:

• · Promote the retention of important agricultural lands in blocks of contiguous, intact, and functional land units large enough to allow flexibility in agricultural production and management;
• · Discourage the fragmentation of important agricultural lands and the conversion of these lands to nonagricultural uses;
• · Direct nonagricultural uses and activities from important agricultural lands to other areas and ensure that uses on important agricultural lands are actually agricultural uses;
• · Limit physical improvements on important agricultural lands to maintain affordability of these lands for agricultural purposes;
• · Provide a basic level of infrastructure and services on important agricultural lands limited to the minimum necessary to support agricultural uses and activities;
• · Facilitate the long-term dedication of important agricultural lands for future agricultural use through the use of incentives;
• · Facilitate the access of farmers to important agricultural lands for long-term viable agricultural use;
• · Promote the maintenance of essential agricultural infrastructure systems, including irrigation systems.

• · None of the resulting lots shall be used solely for residential occupancy;
• · The leasehold lots shall return to the original lot of record upon expiration or termination of the lease.