CFFPI - Farmland Protection Partnership Program:
Wayne County
Project Title:
Local Policy Decisions: Help or Hindrance to Agriculture's
Future?
This page contains useful information about the Wayne County Partner Project, Local Policy Decisions: Help or Hindrance to Agriculture's
Future?, including a brief project
description, project updates,
locator map, county
statistics and relevant links. Please check this page in the future for updates and further
details of the project.
Project Description:
In this project, Wayne, Holmes and Ashland Counties will be cooperating on a
regional level to assess the impact of county policies on agriculture and land
use. After completing a thorough policy audit, they plan to present
strategies for mitigating any negative impacts on agriculture to county
commissioners. This process will begin in Wayne County and will then be
replicated in both Holmes and Ashland Counties. They will be reviewing
policies that are generally not considered as related to agriculture and land
use, including subdivision regulations, water use policies, health department
regulations and engineering codes.
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Project Updates:
The project manager has received back the
initial surveys, with a little over 60% reponse rate (38 surveys out of
60). The analysis of these surveys will begin the actual scrutiny
of policies in Early November.
Updated: 9/27/2007
The initial project survey, questioning county agencies and boards on the impact
of county policies on agriculture and land use, was sent out on Friday, July
6th. This initial survey will assist the project team in deciding which offices
will be audited.
The Wayne county project manager, Katie Myers, visited Ashland and Holmes
counties to assist them in the preparation of forming their local project
committees.
Both Ashland and Holmes counties have assigned their own local project managers
(Ashland County: Mike Wolfson, County Planning Director; Holmes County: Arnold
Oliver, County Planning Director).
Updated: 7/11/2007
Wayne County project leaders have entered into a contract with a policy audit
consultant, Jerry Weitz, Ph.D., AICP. The Project Manager and Project
Advisory Board have also begun to form the policy audit survey that will be sent
to county entities.
Updated: 4/25/2007
A grant agreement and workplan have been signed by CFFPI and project leaders.
The first phase of work has begun.
Updated: 3/13/2007
The Center is currently working with project leaders to draft the final project
workplan agreement and timeline for the project.
Updated: 12/21/2006
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Locator Map:
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County Statistics:
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Links:
Press Release
Wayne County
Holmes County
Ashland County
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