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County staff study shows residential development costs outpace agricultural revenue; staff say preserving farmland lowers net service cost
Summary
An internal cost-of-community-services study prepared by Cooperative Extension and county finance staff quantifies that residential land use consumes more county resources per dollar of revenue than agricultural land, supporting farmland preservation as a net fiscal benefit in Pender County.
Mark Sites, director of Pender County Cooperative Extension, presented a county-prepared cost-of-community-services study Wednesday that estimates the fiscal costs and revenues associated with different land-use categories—residential, commercial and agricultural.
Sites said staff used prior audited financial data and allocated county service costs across land-use categories by direct attribution…
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