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Governor Restricts Development of Farm Land

SACRAMENTO-In response to reports that the state of California is losing 50,000 acres of farmland a year to development, Gov. Gray Davis signs four bills that prevent commercial and residential development on farms and open space.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on September 17, 2002

SACRAMENTO-Gov. Gray Davis has signed four bills that seek to protect farms and open space from development. The bills were authored by Assemblywomen Helen Thomson, D-Davis, and Barbara Matthews, D-Tracy, as a means of maintaining agriculture and open space to conserve the state’s landscape and make farming more efficient.

Thomson’s first bill extends the prohibition against residential subdivision of Williamson Act lands to agricultural lands that are protected by other state programs, such as open space easements, agricultural land conservation easements, and other land conservation programs. The Williamson Act, one of the nation’s leading agricultural land conservation laws, encourages keeping land in active agricultural use.

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