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Committee narrows where farming will be emphasized in draft master plan
Summary
After lengthy debate, the committee directed staff to include "farming" alongside "agriculture" in the draft plan glossary and to treat farming as an explicitly considered use across growth areas, with more limited encouragement in urban areas and stronger recognition in rural and some suburban areas.
The Jefferson County ad hoc master plan committee directed staff to add "farming" alongside "agriculture" throughout the draft master plan and negotiated how the draft should treat farming in urban, suburban and rural growth areas.
The committee discussed multiple options and landed on a compromise approach: farming will be added to land-use text and the glossary; the plan will not encourage farming as a primary land use in urban areas, but staff were asked to reflect farming more prominently in rural areas and to treat farming as…
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