The Board of Supervisors of Washington Township, after receiving reports
of recommendation by the Washington Township Planning Commission and the Washington
Township Agricultural Security Area Advisory Committee, and after a public
hearing held on the petitions of the landowners identified in Exhibit A hereof
to add their lands to the presently existing Agricultural Security Area in
Washington Township, pursuant to the Agricultural Area Security Law, Act 43
of 1981, as amended, 3 P.S. § 901 et seq., hereby adopts the proposals
of the landowners identified in Exhibit A hereof, and the lands identified
in Exhibit A hereof are hereby added to and become part of the Washington
Township Agricultural Security Area.
The lands included in the Washington Township Agricultural Security
Area shall be afforded all of the protection set forth in the Agricultural
Area Security Law, Act 43 of 1981, as amended, 3 P.S. § 901 et seq.,
so as to encourage the continuity, development and viability of agriculture
within such area, including but not limited to limitations on the exercise
of the power of eminent domain.
The Board of Supervisors hereby authorizes the filing of a description
of the lands to be included in the Washington Township Agricultural Security
Area as a result of this article in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of
Berks County, the Berks County Planning Commission and the Washington Township
Planning Commission.