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Originally Posted by John Mercier

Those towns are now complaining about the effect that current use has on the local tax rate.

https://www.nhbr.com/current-use-sys...-to-taxpayers/

Thanks for that link, John. To me this is a north/south issue in many respects. Towns in the south are going to the state LCHIP program for grants to buy land which will then yield no tax revenue at all. They are also going to the Clean Drinking and Groundwater Fund for grants and low cost loans to buy land to protect aquifers and surface waters used as local water supplies. In the north country, LCHIP grants are used more for buying and restoring historic buildings. I believe, starting ~50 years ago, development in eastern Hillsborough County and Rcokingham County, got way ahead of local and state planners and local zoning did not adequately address the need and layout of open space.