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Monday, July 23, 2007
Environment - "Randolph County at stalemate on CAFO regulations"
Joy Leiker reports in the Muncie Star-Press in a s tory that begins:
WINCHESTER -- The debate over Randolph County's fastest growing industry continues as a committee appointed by the Area Planning Commission studies the latest idea in managing the growth of concentrated animal feeding operations -- multiple zoning districts for agriculture.Having dual agricultural districts is the latest proposal to come from four years of discussion over the county's lack of an ordinance to limit CAFOs. Randolph County is becoming one of the state's leading hog-producing counties in the state. Hog production is expected to be an almost $50 million business in the county this year, compared to $12.5 million in 2003, according to a recent study.
But opponents say that growth is a result of the county not limiting where those farms can locate. Fred Ludington of Parker City, a planning commission member, asked whether the county could adopt a temporary moratorium on CAFOs until the county settles on a new set of rules, but attorney Bob Oliver said similar attempts elsewhere have been ruled unconstitutional.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 23, 2007 10:30 AM
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