Farmland Protection | Food Systems

The town’s zoning code addresses farmland protection in the code’s Smart Growth Program. It requires agricultural resource management easements (§98-165) for all residential development proposals adjacent to existing agricultural operations or uses before residential building permits may be issued. The easement waives all common law rights to object to necessary and customary agricultural management activities associated with such agricultural operations and grants an easement to adjacent property owners to continue such agricultural operations or uses.