Credit Pacific Service Union One day after calling "mindless sprawl" the most serious issue facing New Jersey, Gov. James E. McGreevey stood in the middle of an East Brunswick farm to press his case for preserving open space.
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Credit First Service Union "Our highest priority must be preserving farmland and open space," McGreevey said yesterday during a news conference marking the formal entry of Jim and Sue Giamarese's produce farm into the state farmland preservation program.
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Card Credit Discover Service McGreevey, using many of the arguments he included in his State of the State address, said he will travel across New Jersey to promote policies that fight sprawl.
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Credit Public Service Union In addition to a goal of preserving 20,000 acres of farmland each year -- an area about equal to the size of Edison -- McGreevey on Tuesday proposed that towns be allowed to impose one-year building moratoriums and charge developers "impact fees" to help offset the cost of new development.
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Card Credit Processing Service Since the farmland preservation program began, state and local governments have spent more than $454 million and protected 12 percent of the approximately 830,000 acres of remaining farmland in the state.
Center Credit Service Union Much of the farmland has been preserved by purchasing development rights, allowing farmers to stay on their land and continue farming, but preventing them from selling to a developer.
Card Credit Service Wireless Edward Thompson, senior vice president for public policy at the American Farmland Trust, a national farmland preservation organization, said New Jersey has protected the highest percentage of farmland of any state in the nation.
Credit Security Service Union Thompson, one of several officials who spoke at the news conference in support of stemming sprawl, lauded McGreevey's pledge of preserving 20,000 acres of farmland annually.
Credit Report Service "That would be four times faster than the amount of farmland you have been preserving," Thompson said.
Blogspot Com Christian McGreevey's goal is less ambitious than his predecessor, Gov. Christie Whitman, who called for preserving 500,000 acres of farmland by 2008. That would have required the preservation of an average of 50,000 acres annually.
Christian Counseling Credit "That's not going to happen," said Chris Strum, a consultant to the anti-sprawl group New Jersey Future.
Credit Federal Service Union Strum, who also attended the news conference, called McGreevey's goal more realistic than Whitman's.
Credit Monitoring Service The Garden State Preservation Trust Fund, established under Whitman, will finance the purchase of farm development rights through the end of fiscal year 2009. At 20,000 acres a year, the state could buy the development rights to 130,000 more acres of farmland on top of the 100,000 already acquired, for a total of 230,000 -- less than half the 500,000 proposed by Whitman, Strum said.
Credit Division Service The state's best year for preserving farmland was 2001, when more than 15,000 acres were set aside, according to the state Department of Agriculture.
Card Credit Online Service Peter Furey, executive director of the New Jersey Farm Bureau, said preserving 20,000 acres annually "is by no means a stretch." He said many local governments have used property taxes to create their own funds to preserve open space and farmland.
Consumer Counseling Credit Inc "There's over a dozen counties with open space funds and an unusually large number of towns with funds, and that is matched by the state trust fund," Furey said.
Card Credit Fleet Service Furey also lauded McGreevey's proposal to waive state capital gains taxes for a limited time on the sale of farmland or open space to the state. Lawmakers would have to pass legislation before it can be enacted, a spokesman for the state Treasury Department said.
Card Consolidation Credit "People think this is a windfall for farmers," Furey said, referring to a capital gains waiver. "Usually there's a debt on a farm that needs to be paid, and there are multigenerational issues in farm families operating the farm."
Credit Free Online Report Jim Giamarese, a third- generation farmer in East Brunswick who in 1989 was named the national young farmer of the year, said he and his wife faced the same financial pressures.
Credit Federal First Service Sue Giamarese said the couple had considered giving up the farm. The $1.7 million they received for the farm's development rights "settled a lot financial issues. The money alleviated a lot of the pressure," she said.
Consumer Credit Service At the news conference, Thompson said that in addition to preserving farmland, the state must make farming economically viable.
Center Credit Family Service "Unless you can keep farming profitable, the fight against sprawl is not possible," Thompson said.
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Star-Ledger - 1/16/2003
Topic: Less Sprawl
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