VI. Recommendations
- Reconsider whether farmland preservation is a necessity compared to other environmental priorities in Michigan.
- Enact legislation authorizing private land trusts to take over administration of P.A. 116 programs from the state.
- Enact legislation to allow private trusts administering the farmland preservation program to incorporate eligibility criteria that distinguish properties according to relative risk of conversion and according to environmental value.
- Establish through legislation a scale of tax credits that accounts for variations in preservation value.
- Enact legislation to allow covenant conditions to be individually customized.
- Enact legislation to allow private trusts to institute penalties for early program withdrawal, to reduce exploitation of tax credits by land speculators.
- Reduce the state’s land inventory to encourage a more robust market in outdoor recreation.
- Require through legislation that state agencies analyze whether existing farmland preservation programs are fulfilling objectives before additional funds for administration are authorized.
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Michigan's Farmland Preservation Program: An Assessment
Michigan's Farmland Preservation Program: An Assessment
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