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Extension, finance present county-level cost-of-community-services study showing farmland cost advantage
Summary
Pender County Cooperative Extension and the finance office presented an internal cost-of-community-services study quantifying how service costs vary by land use. The study found agriculture imposes lower per-dollar service costs than residential development and recommended using such data to inform preservation strategies.
Mark Sites, the county Cooperative Extension director, and Jacob Ormond from the finance department presented a county-prepared cost-of-community-services study during the Jan. 21 meeting. The study adapts established methodologies to quantify how county revenues and expenditures are distributed across residential, commercial and agricultural land uses.
Sites said the study was developed in-house after reviewing university methodologies and that the county could update the figures quickly using current fiscal-year data. He said the analysis…
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