MCBCC | Planning | Farmland Information

Marion County's Farmland Preservation / Transfer
of Development Rights Program

Policy 1.2 of the Conservation Element of the Marion County Comprehensive Plan:

Marion County shall include the following categories of resources as locally significant natural resources due special protection through measures such as buffering from adverse impacts of development, transfer of development rights to areas contiguous to these lands or water resources, acquisition through the Parks and Environmentally Sensitive Land Acquisition Program, and requiring development to minimize adverse impacts to these resources:

a.	Surface waters of the State;
b.	Native vegetative communities, including forests;
c.	Commercially valuable mineral resources;
d.	Soils, including: hydric soils; prime farmland and locally important farmland; and timberland, as defined by the USDA Soil Conservation Service include the following soil series: Blitchton, Kanapaha, Micanopy, Fellowship, Kendrick, Flemington, Gainesville, Lochloosa, Hague, and Zuber
e.	Good quality air;
f.	Good quality groundwater; and
g.	Fisheries, wildlife, and wildlife habitat.