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Land access advocate tells committee regional planning must protect farmland in future‑use maps
Summary
A member of the Land Access and Opportunity Board urged the House agriculture committee to require regional planning commissions to include future agricultural land‑use maps in their current plan revisions, arguing maps should protect prime soils near towns to keep farms viable and accessible to markets.
Samantha Landriven, a resident of Bristol and representative on the Land Access and Opportunity Board, told the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry that regional planning commissions (RPCs) should be mandated to include future agricultural land‑use maps in their current revisions.
Landriven said future land‑use maps will shape where towns plan for growth and that agricultural land has been treated as “always…
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