Cows in the Falls? Farmer Enlightens City Council on Agricultural Districts

A Northampton farmer got the OK from council to re-enroll in an agricultural district, which would protect him from nuisance lawsuits

Council members got a lesson in agricultural districts and the process of keeping them in tact at their meeting Monday night. One Cuyahoga Falls man with a farm in the 600 block of West Steels Corners Road had applied to the county, then to the city, to place his property into an agricultural district. Resident Daniel Michael Lynch, who has applied and was granted the designation before, said Summit County officials asked him to get the approval of Cuyahoga Falls City Council. Approval is needed every five years. "I brought the copy down here and nobody knew what to do with it,” Lynch said at Monday night's meeting inside the Natatorium's Erie-Cuyahoga Room. "It’s not a tax break; this is something that kind of protects me from unwanted …

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