Why the county created agricultural parks

The Council finds that there is a pressing need to encourage diversified agriculture in the County. One of the basic requirements in promoting diversified agricultural is the availability of land. To encourage landowners to provide land for agricultural purposes, the Council finds it desirable to designate an area within an agricultural or open zone strictly for the growing of crops and other agricultural pursuits wherein the strict requirements of the Subdivision Ordinance would be reduced thereby eliminating a substantial part of the investment required for the normal subdivision improvements. To enable the farmers to acquire land without substantial and burdensome capital investment requirements, but at the same time removing the risk of agricultural land being converted into residential or other non-agricultural areas without meeting the normal minimum subdivision requirements, the County finds it desirable to create a new type of subdivision within an agricultural or open zone entitled "agricultural park" with sufficient restrictions and controls to assure the availability of such parks for farmers and at the same time preventing the risk of such agricultural parks becoming residential or other non-agricultural areas that do not conform to subdivision standards, the Council enacts the ordinance codified in this Chapter.