Question Number 10 Comments:

“Farmlands should be encouraged in designated areas”?

• Farmland already establishedX2
• Owners choice X 5
• Should be land owners choice.
• Encouraged but not just in designated areas.X2
• Too much of Mich’s good farmland is being taken over by residential and commercial facilities.
• Absolutely.X2
• What has been farmed should not be forced out of farming by Ordinances and Zoning.
• Should be encouraged to be operative not laying fallow.
• Farmland was here first. X 4
• Not designated.
• Where they are now located.
• Farms should not be harassed by encroaching residents.
• Encouraged and protected.
• We need to preserve farmland not plant houses etc. Breaking up farms into small plots – having to work around buildings – not profitable.
• Anywhere should be okay.
• Heavy equipment & heavy traffic does not mix very good.
• What are the designated areas, who designates them & how political are they?
• Who designates?
• Farms not being farmed should be developed or plant trees to reforest & provide wildlife habitat.
• Farmland should be left alone to exist where it now is.
• People moving into area should be warned this a farming community & there are smells & slow vehicles that go with that. Don’t complain or stay in the city.
• Farmland is our life line.
• Taxes for saving the homestead are too high. You are forcing people to sell the farm.