County’s ag district adds 445 acres in 6 towns
Courtesy of Orleans County Department of Planning and Development: This map shows the acreage in green that are in the county-wide ag district. The red areas are land to be included in the ag district.
ALBION – The Orleans County Agricultural District is set to expand by 445 acres. The county is doing the annual review for the district and nine landowners requested to be included.
The additions include:
- 91.2 acres on North Gravel Road in Ridgeway
- 36.2 acres on Townline Road in Ridgeway
- 8.3 acres on East Lee Road in Clarendon
- 35 acres on Root Road in Barre
- 90.8 acres on Roosevelt Highway in Carlton
- 59.5 acres on Center Road in Kendall
- 113.3 acres on Lakeland Beach Road South in Kendall
- 1.6 acres on Lakeland Beach Road South in Kendall
- 8.9 acres on Gaines Basin Road in Albion.
The additions were recommended by the Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board and approved by the Orleans County Legislature last week. They go to state for a final certification.
The district is currently at 120,150 acres or 48 percent of the county’s land mass.
Corey Winters, the county’s director of planning and development, presented the additions to the Legislature last week.
Being in the ag district gives farmers some extra protections from nuisance suits where they are doing normal agricultural practices.
Undeveloped land that is in the district is not allowed to hook into waterlines for non-agricultural use because of the potential adverse effects on agriculture, Winters has said. Existing homes, residences, and farms within an agricultural district are not prohibited from connecting to new water lines.
