The Board of Supervisors of Washington Township has received reports
of recommendation by the Township Planning Commission and Township Agricultural
Area Security Committee, and after a public hearing held on the petition to
form an agricultural area, under the Agricultural Area Security Law (Act 43
of 1981), the same is adopted as an Agricultural Security Area District
within the Township of Washington.
Said Agricultural Security Area District shall be afforded the protection
provided by said Act 43 so as to encourage the continuity, development and viability of
agriculture within such area, including but not limited to limitations on
the exercise of eminent domain.
The Board of Supervisors authorized the filing of the resolution and
petition with the Berks County Recorder of Deeds and the Berks County Planning
Commission.