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FARMLAND DEV’T RIGHTS AGREEMENTFarmland Development Rights Agreement • February 20th, 2002
The House Committee on Land Use and Environment adopted three amendments to Senate Bill 692, two of which were technical in nature. The third amends a section of Part 361 of the act (Farmland and Open Space Preservation) dealing with cases in which the state releases farmland from a development rights agreement at the request of both a landowner and a local governing body. That section specifies the circumstances under which land can be released (or "relinquished"). One of the instances in current law is when a local governing body determines that the relinquishment is in the public interest and that the farmland in question either 1) is to be owned, operated, and maintained by a public body for public use, or 2) has been zoned for the immediately preceding three years for a commercial or industrial use.
