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Question about #'s of acres/property for US farms
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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 634566" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>There are more and more local, usually county wide, zoning requirements that limit how small land classified as "agricultural" can be subdivided. This is often in 20 acre or 40 acre minimums. To get anything divided smaller than that it has to be rezoned from ag to residential. That usually has a significantly higher property tax rate. </p><p></p><p>To be rezoned to residential more often now you have to be adjacent to a town. This is to avoid farms in the country suddenly being divided by the owner into 5 acre lots, houses built and then the new buyers start complaining about how they want city services like fire, police, water, sewer, nearby schools etc and then the whole county's tax rates go up.</p><p></p><p>It is also to try to preserve the ag nature of some farm ground outside of metro areas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 634566, member: 7509"] There are more and more local, usually county wide, zoning requirements that limit how small land classified as "agricultural" can be subdivided. This is often in 20 acre or 40 acre minimums. To get anything divided smaller than that it has to be rezoned from ag to residential. That usually has a significantly higher property tax rate. To be rezoned to residential more often now you have to be adjacent to a town. This is to avoid farms in the country suddenly being divided by the owner into 5 acre lots, houses built and then the new buyers start complaining about how they want city services like fire, police, water, sewer, nearby schools etc and then the whole county's tax rates go up. It is also to try to preserve the ag nature of some farm ground outside of metro areas. [/QUOTE]
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