Seminole County working on new land conservation program
A committee would be established to identify available lands and establish priorities.
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A committee would be established to identify available lands and establish priorities.
Seminole would annually dedicate 5% — about $3 million under the current budget — of non-ad-valorem revenues collected by the county to fund the land acquisition program.
Seminole commissioners on Tuesday agreed to move forward with establishing a countywide program that would purchase environmentally sensitive natural lands for conservation and passive recreation, thereby protecting open areas from sprawling developments. “If we do this, we will be the first [county] in the state that has done this,” said Commissioner Lee Constantine in support of the proposed ...
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