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Board votes 4-1 to change small farms classification; members expect county or state review
Summary
Patrick Brinton, a small-market farmer, asked the Local Board of Appeals to change the classification of his roughly 9-acre parcel to agricultural and the board voted 4-1 to do so.
Patrick Brinton, a small-scale market farmer, asked the Local Board of Appeals to reclassify his roughly 9-acre property as agricultural for tax purposes, citing ongoing fruit and vegetable production and sales to farmers markets and local producers.
Brinton told the board he grows apples and other fruits and vegetables and sells at local farmers markets and to a winery and brewery. "The statute in question is for properties under 11 acres selling intensive market farming," Brinton said. He told the board he has been increasing production each year and offered to…
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