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The City of Bakersfield will now require developers to Mitigate Conversion of Prime Agricultural Land to urban use.

Sequoia Riverlands Trust is positioned to offer Agricultural Conservation Easements to Kern County farmers.

Developers and Farmers Compete for Land
Kern County has an opportunity to both preserve prime agricultural land AND accommodate the inevitable population growth by adopting better development efficiency standards.

 

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The First San Joaquin Valley Regional Blueprint Summit was held on June 28 in Fresno with more than 600 people in attendance!






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san joaquin Valley Blueprint Process


Shaping the future of your community


In a series of public meetings and workshops throughout the San Joaquin Valley, counties will gather citizen opinion to produce a vision of what the Valley should look like in 2050 and a “preferred growth scenario” that identifies lands to be developed, maintained for agriculture or preserved for nature.

 
Agency Responsible For The Blueprint Planning Process
in Kern County:
Kern County Council of Governments (KernCOG)
1401 19th Street, Suite 300
Bakersfield, CA 93301
  Principal Contact Person:
Darrel Hildebrand
Assistant Director
(661) 861-2191
dhildebrand@kerncog.org
 

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  Kern County Central
Valley
Kern map x Map Key
Land Developed (1990-2000) 19,746
acres
97,608 acres

Projected Loss of Farmland
by 2040

147,142 acres

933,294 acres

Percentage of Development on High Quality Farmland
(1990-2000)

33%

53%

People Accommodated for Each Acre Developed (1990-2000)

5.5

8.1
x More statistics on Kern County farmland
from AFT's 2006 report: The Future Is Now:
Central Valley Farmland at the Tipping Point?
x Interactive Map of Farmland
Developed in Kern County


Contact Us:

California Office
P.O. Box 74040
Davis, CA 95617
Edward Thompson, Jr.
California State Director
(p) 202-309-1162
ethompson@farmland.org

Mike Darnell
California Policy Director
(p) 530-755-1644
mdarnell@farmland.org




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