Central Valley Land Use Report
[Executive Summary]
[Introduction]
[Agricultural Production in an Urban
State] [Goals] [Basic
Principles]
[Sidebar: Can the Central Valley Learn
from the Experience of Los Angeles?] [Task
Force Membership] [Acknowledgements]
[Footnotes]
Goals
Two goals are of primary importance to this task force:
- Maintain and enhance agriculture as an economically viable enterprise in the Central Valley.
- Conserve important agricultural land in the Central Valley.
To accomplish these goals, we must plan for the long-term protection of agricultural land for agricultural production. Agricultural land should not be the path of least resistance for residential, commercial, and industrial developers. Instead, growth and development must occur in such a way that it will cause the least adverse effect on agriculture.
Other resources in addition to land are important for a vibrant agricultural economy. Our goals are meaningless if agricultural land is protected but other necessary resources for agriculture are lost to urbanization. Consequently, a reasonable level of resource certainty for farmers and ranchers must accompany the conservation of agricultural land for agricultural production.
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