4-B sw THE PLAIN DEALER FEBRUARY 26, 1999 Ohio FRIDAY Farm protection linked to urban tax breaks By PAUL SOUHRADA ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBUS Better planning and new incentives for businesses to redevelop urban areas can help protect Ohio's prime farmland from being overrun by minimarts and housing subdivisions, two state lawmakers said yesterday. "This is not about "antigrowth," State Rep. Sean Logan, a Columbiana County Democrat, said while explaining a package of seven bills he and State Rep. Gene Krebs, a western Ohio Republican, plan to introduce in the Ohio House soon. "It's about smart growth," Logan said.
Logan and Krebs, the legislature's st two leading proponents of farmland preservation, told reporters they want to take a more practical, voluntary approach to farmland preservation. Instead of imposing rigid, "nogrowth" boundaries as some states have, they want Ohio to offer tax breaks to businesses and home builders that look toward already developed areas rather than away from them, At the current pace, Ohio is los- state to consider whether its poliing 77 acres of farmland every cies contribute to urban sprawl. day. Another bill would make it know we can't control the ier for owners of contaminated market," Logan said. "But we urban property to get bank ficertainly can influence where the nancing to clean up and develop growth takes place." the land.
Urban areas would be "We're very inefficient in our able to use state tax breaks and housing methods," added Krebs, state-paid sewer and water servreferring to the current trend to- ice to entice businesses and home ward 5-acre lots carved out of builders to lure development. what recently were working "Farmland. preservation and farms. urban revitalization are two sides One of the bills would allow de- of the saine coin," Logan exvelopers to subdivide properties plained. into parcels larger than 5 acres, Karl Gebhardt, executive dibut smaller than 20 acres a rector of the Ohio Office of Farmmove Krebs said would allow land Preservation, said Logan more land to stay in production and Krebs were off to a good agriculture.
start. Another would encourage coun- "I think, conceptually, they are ties to develop comprehensive very good ideas," Gebhardt said. land use plans and adopt tougher "But there's always going to be septic system rules. Counties that debate." do would move up on state fund- And it's a sure bet that the Ohio ing priority lists, and farmers in Home Builders Association is those counties could qualify for going to be in the middle of it. special tax breaks and loan pro- The home builders dispute the grams.
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Now the city's convention center named for polio vaccine developer Albert Sabin could be in for a name change. City officials are considering expanding the center and selling the naming rights. And some people are offended by the possibility that Sabin's name could be removed, including his widow. The medical pioneer died in 1993. "I thought that they were giving this to him forever and Heloisa Sabin said by telephone from her home in Washington, D.C.
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