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At its meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission voted unanimously to initiate the process to develop an amendment to the zoning and land use regulations for unincorporated or rural areas. The amendment, once developed and approved, will establish a new system and standards to evaluate requests to rezone agricultural land to another use.

The county has already been taking agricultural productivity into account when reviewing requests to rezone agricultural land under zoning regulations it adopted in February 2020. Planning staff has been doing manual reviews of properties to determine current or potential agricultural productivity, and Wednesday’s approval gives planning staff the green light to move forward with the development of standards for an automated review process called the Land Evaluation and Site Assessment (LESA) system.

FangKC wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:06 am I've read that climate change is going to potentially reduce yields on agricultural land by 40 percent if we fail to keep temperature increases under 2 degrees celcius. Thus, we are going to need as much current farmland to remain farmland. Of course, if humans can stop eating so much meat, we won't need as much wheat, corn, and soybeans -- because a lot of it goes to feed animals.

FangKC wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:06 am I've read that climate change is going to potentially reduce yields on agricultural land by 40 percent if we fail to keep temperature increases under 2 degrees celcius. Thus, we are going to need as much current farmland to remain farmland. Of course, if humans can stop eating so much meat, we won't need as much wheat, corn, and soybeans -- because a lot of it goes to feed animals.