Grim's Orchard Hit With Zoning Violations

'The Morning Call'--"The township emphasized its support of local agriculture, but it stood by its decision to cite the orchard for hosting activities outside of the bounds of the zoning rules."

I'm not going to pretend to know all the ins and outs on this issue. I may be reading this all wrong, but (1) Various local governments are spending lots of loot on trying to save farmland. Here's a family trying to do just that. Seems to me they should receive encouragement rather the discouragement.

(2) If the Grim family decided they probably could sell off their land for warehouses or home development like the Jaindl's making more money then spending years of growing season after season could ever bring in without assuming the risks.

(3) A couple weeks out of the year with traffic seems to be less a burden then year round truck and/or home development would bring in. Nor require the infrastructure

(4) Warehouses and homes pay taxes. Is that what the township is looking at?
Like I said I may be reading this all wrong, but family owned farms in my book should receive all the encouragement we can give them. Too many of their next generations are giving up farm life. I further believe the government should exempt all family owned farms from inherited estate taxes. Unless people want to depend on imports from some not so friendly polluted foreign nations these polices should change. MAGA


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