Vermont § 8 - Agricultural lands planning criteria
Full text of Vermont Vermont Statutes Online § 8 — Agricultural lands planning criteria, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 8. Agricultural lands planning criteria
- (a) The Secretary shall establish guidelines to assist municipal and regional planning
commissions in identifying agricultural lands. The guidelines shall provide, but not
be limited to: (1) soil characteristics appropriate to agricultural land; (2) appropriate size of the parcel and use of adjacent land; (3) the importance of agriculture to the region or locality; (4) the availability and capacity of agricultural services and labor to support farming
in the region; and (5) the importance of the land, as agricultural land, to the character of the locality. (b) The guidelines established by the Secretary under subsection (a) of this section may
be applied by each regional and municipal planning commission to establish specific
criteria for identifying agricultural lands within that region or municipality. (Added 1987, No. 200 (Adj. Sess.), § 30, eff. May 19, 1988; amended 2003, No. 42, § 2, eff. May 27, 2003.)
Source: official Vermont text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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