3725 Salem Rd, Salem, WI 53168

Agricultural Preservation District

The Kenosha County Board of Supervisors recognizes that the rapid conversion of farm land to urban use has led to increasing public concern over such conversion. This concern centers on the perceived loss of the local agriculture economic base, loss of agricultural land as a valuable natural resource with the attendant loss of the aesthetic and environmental values associated with that resource, and the loss of the rural lifestyle and the unique cultural heritage which emanates from that lifestyle, and the attendant high costs of providing urban services as well as resolving potential urban-rural conflicts which arise as a result of urban encroachment into rural areas. Therefore, the A-1 Agricultural Preservation District is intended to maintain, enhance, and preserve agricultural lands historically utilized for crop production and the raising of livestock. The preservation of such agricultural lands is intended to conserve energy, prevent urban sprawl, maintain open space, retain natural systems and natural processes, control public cost, preserve the local economic base, promote local self-sufficiency, preserve the rural lifestyle, and maintain regional, state and national agricultural reserves. The District is further intended to prevent the premature conversion of agricultural land to scattered residential, commercial and industrial uses.