Scott County Prime Farmland Mapping Project
2009
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Scott County Prime Farmland Mapping Project
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2009
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Minneapolis: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
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Scott County contains some of the most productive agricultural soils in the metropolitan region and provides a valuable resource to produce local foods for the Twin Cities population. However, suburban growth has significantly increased land values in the rural parts of the county, creating a potential conflict between the use of land for agriculture and future urbanization. Scott County's 2030 Comprehensive Plan designates much of the existing farmland around the growing cities of Jordan, Belle Plaine, and New Prague as Urban Expansion or Urban Transition areas eligible for higher density development. U-CGO worked with the Jordan Area Visioning Alliance (JAVA) on a project that included using geographic information systems (GIS) analysis to identify land in Scott County that is most and least suitable for agricultural production to help inform land preservation efforts.
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This project was supported by a grant from the Community Growth Options (U-CGO) program, a joint project of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) and the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, with funding from the McKnight Foundation.
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Schweser, Greg. (2009). Scott County Prime Farmland Mapping Project. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/203609.
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