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<br /> <br />Chapter 8 RURAL AND RESOURCE LANDS <br />KITTITAS COUNTY <br />Page 107 Comprehensive Plan <br />RR-P118: Continue and expand support for right-to-farm ordinances. <br />RR-P119: The County should promote the preservation of agricultural activities through programs that <br />encourage long-term ownership and production on agricultural lands. <br />RR-P120: Kittitas County recognizes that new residents may not understand the rural living differences <br />encountered in Kittitas County; therefore, the County supports the efforts of educational opportunities and <br />agencies to educate on rural living and agricultural activities of long term significance. <br />RR-P121: The County should encourage development projects whose outcome will be the significant <br />conservation of farmlands. <br />RR-P122: The County should identify and designate agriculture transportation corridors that facilitate farm <br />use. <br />RR-P123: The County should participate in sound voluntary farm conservation or preservation plans (i.e., be <br />recipients and overseers for conservation easements and/or assist with transferable development rights <br />programs). <br />RR-P124: The County should look into additional tax incentives to retain productive agricultural lands. <br />RR-P125: The County should create a growth management agricultural advisory council comprised only of <br />agriculture producers to review and make recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners on at <br />least an annual basis over the coming 20 years on: <br />a) the status of agriculture in Kittitas County, <br />b) County agriculture policies and regulations, <br />c) local agriculture marketing and economic planning, and <br />d) review and make recommendations regarding zoning and development regulations. <br />RR-P126: Current agricultural uses in urban residential areas should continue to be allowed as the lands <br />transition to urban residential uses. <br />RR-P127: The County should provide for flexible use of agricultural lands that are located in areas with <br />limited or no irrigation. <br />RR-P128: The County will continue to support development and implementation of the Yakima Basin <br />Integrated Management Plan to support water supply for agricultural lands. <br />Incentives for Commercial Agriculture Land Use <br />It is the policy of Kittitas County to encourage and support agricultural uses of lands within the Commercial <br />Agricultural designation. The County will continue to explore additional incentives for conserving both rural <br />and resource lands. These incentives may be developed through the Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan and <br />subsequent implementation mechanisms. <br />RR-P129: The County should establish an agricultural advisory commission to advise the BOCC on <br />agricultural issues.