Someone has to pay when we want to protect farmland. It should not be farmers. This is one area where we the people, should be willing to use some of our taxes to avoid runaway development. However, obviously there are risks to this approach, and it does not guarantee that we can stop rampant development with buying the land that some farmers may be willing to lock up. To be clear, we are doing approaches like this in Jefferson County.
Thurston county is looking to establish a program to purchase development rights from qualified farm owners. “Landowners may get paid to preserve” http://www.theolympian.com/2011/07/28/1740388/landowners-may-get-cash.html
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