Is there another answer — instead of a new tax — to save county farmlands from developers?
Clallam County commissioners today will consider a revised farmland preservation ordinance that drops the proposed 6.25 cents per $1,000 property tax in favor of taking $250,000 from the county’s capital facilities fund for one year.
The new ordinance would also make timber land in the West End eligible for the preservation program, although farmland in the Dungeness Valley will be the primary focus.
The commissioners are scheduled to vote on the revised ordinance at 10 a.m. today in the Clallam County Courthouse at 223 E. Fourth St.
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