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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1828800" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>Don't get me started on THAT! In my son's relatively (less than 5 yr old) subdivision, they put 8 houses/acre. 1/8 acre lots. Can't put 10 because of utility easements, sidewalks, streets etc. Used to be a big Arabian horse ranch and before that, cattle and before that, some kind of cropland, probably cotton or beans. That land was probably valued at $7000/acre as an ag land, but now, with 8 $300,000 houses on an acre is tax valued WAY higher. The short term winner is the guy that sold it to the developer, and sort of, the new homeowners with a 20 year mortgage, but the long term loser is AG, as that landwill never produce another bale of cotton or another calf or horse. The BIG winner, is the county tax <u><strong>ass</strong></u>cessor/collector. In 2021, I took about an hour speaking on why my county needed more ag and less developers, explaining all this and more in front of about 100 farmers and ranchers and a panel of county appraisal district board,the appraisal district chief appraiser, the appraisal district's ag advisory board, and I lambasted he tax <strong><u>ass</u></strong>cessor/collector who was also up there on the panel when she interrupted me to say 'the county needs revenue". Texas 1D1 law (Ag exemption legislation) specifically spells out that ag exemptions shall<u> be approved</u> <strong>regardless</strong> of how much revenue a county needs. I had the Texas Comptroller's Ag Appraisal manual in front of me and read that part to them chapter and verse. They didn't like it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1828800, member: 18945"] Don't get me started on THAT! In my son's relatively (less than 5 yr old) subdivision, they put 8 houses/acre. 1/8 acre lots. Can't put 10 because of utility easements, sidewalks, streets etc. Used to be a big Arabian horse ranch and before that, cattle and before that, some kind of cropland, probably cotton or beans. That land was probably valued at $7000/acre as an ag land, but now, with 8 $300,000 houses on an acre is tax valued WAY higher. The short term winner is the guy that sold it to the developer, and sort of, the new homeowners with a 20 year mortgage, but the long term loser is AG, as that landwill never produce another bale of cotton or another calf or horse. The BIG winner, is the county tax [U][B]ass[/B][/U]cessor/collector. In 2021, I took about an hour speaking on why my county needed more ag and less developers, explaining all this and more in front of about 100 farmers and ranchers and a panel of county appraisal district board,the appraisal district chief appraiser, the appraisal district's ag advisory board, and I lambasted he tax [B][U]ass[/U][/B]cessor/collector who was also up there on the panel when she interrupted me to say 'the county needs revenue". Texas 1D1 law (Ag exemption legislation) specifically spells out that ag exemptions shall[U] be approved[/U] [B]regardless[/B] of how much revenue a county needs. I had the Texas Comptroller's Ag Appraisal manual in front of me and read that part to them chapter and verse. They didn't like it. [/QUOTE]
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