Committee debates farmland protection inside the 30-square-mile Greater Rigby area
Members discussed policy language to keep large farms intact, suggested minimum split sizes (2–10 acres) and warned heirs selling land could trigger parcelization; staff said comp-plan wording guides future zoning and conditional use decisions.
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Committee members spent substantial time on farmland preservation inside the 30-square-mile Greater Rigby planning area. Several participants argued that, because some landowners have no immediate development plans, the real threat is later parcelization by heirs and developers; the committee discussed policy language and lot-size thresholds to discourage converting large agricultural parcels into many small residential lots.
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