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PATS Staff Paper #3 abstract


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Limitations of Agricultural Land Use Planning Tools in Rural Wisconsin

Recent opinion polls suggest that farmland preservation is one of the most widely shared goals for local land use planning in Wisconsin. Although the state has long been a leader in the use of tax and zoning policy tools to protect agricultural lands from residential or commercial development, continued high rates of farmland loss have cast doubt on the effectiveness of these tools. This paper examines statistical evidence regarding the effectiveness of farmland tax credit and exclusive agricultural zoning policies in Wisconsin. Using town level data, the findings suggest that tax credits and zoning have had very limited success at mediating spatial patterns of farmland loss.

PATS Staff Paper #3. July, 2000. Download PDF

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