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Fluvanna Farm Bureau president defends land-use taxation, warns of fiscal costs from subdivision
Summary
A local farmer and Farm Bureau leader told supervisors that land-use taxation helps the county avoid service costs tied to development and warned that losing land-use benefits would raise costs for county taxpayers and strain infrastructure and schools.
Channing Snoddy, president of the Fluvanna County Farm Bureau, told the Board of Supervisors on Sept. 17 that local land‑use taxation saves the county money by keeping farmland out of the tax base for full market valuation and by avoiding the service costs associated with residential subdivision.
Snoddy described a hypothetical 94‑acre parcel with 20 acres of hay producing modest farm income and said under a sample market valuation the parcel would produce taxes that fail…
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