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Ada County adopts new Agricultural Protection Area ordinance; statewide law creates opt‑in tool for landowners
Summary
The Ada County Board adopted a new Title 11 creating Agricultural Protection Areas (APAs), a property owner opt‑in tool established by recent state legislation. The ordinance sets application rules, minimum acreage and a 20‑year minimum designation period and creates an APA commission to review requests within short statutory timelines.
Ada County commissioners adopted a new local ordinance implementing a tool created by recent Idaho legislation that allows landowners to designate Agricultural Protection Areas (APAs) on parcels that meet statutory tests.
What the ordinance does: Development Services staff presented a new Title 11 that translates the state law into a local procedure. The ordinance establishes eligibility criteria (minimum five acres; active agricultural or forest production for at least three consecutive years as defined in state code), an application and review process and a new advisory APA commission to make…
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