{"id":220,"date":"2008-01-15T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T14:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/will-farmington-buy-krell-farm\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T10:24:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T14:24:01","slug":"will-farmington-buy-krell-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/will-farmington-buy-krell-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Farmington Buy Krell Farm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, the residents of Farmington have an important decision to make regarding the future of the Krell Farm.<\/p>\n<p>The town is holding a special referendum vote, allowing residents to decide if the town should buy 90 of the farm&#8217;s 98 acres for $6.75 million, which will preserve the land as open space.  If Farmington&#8217;s residents decide against buying the acreage, a developer will most likely step in and buy the land, at a much greater price.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the proposal <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmingtonlandtrust.org\/KrellFarmProposal.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmingtonlandtrust.org\/Krell_Farm_Fact_Sheet.html\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/hc-krellfarm0114.artjan14,0,1244198.story?track=rss\">here<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newbritainherald.com\/WebApp\/appmanager\/JRC\/BigDaily?_nfpb=true&#038;_pageLabel=pg_article&#038;r21.content=%2FMAIN_REP%2FArticle%2F2008%2F01%2F13%2F1409916\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Today the Courant&#8217;s editorial section made <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/hc-krell.artjan15,0,5915947.story\">a plea to Farmington&#8217;s residents to buy the land.<\/a><\/strong>  I have to say, I must agree with their position.  Maybe it&#8217;s my Vermont roots talking, but I can&#8217;t stand to see developments eating up all of the farmland.<\/p>\n<p>Farmington residents, please vote this Thursday, January 17.  Make productive use of land that is already developed.  Don&#8217;t destroy the green space and farmland.  <strong>Vote YES to purchase the Krell Farm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Image is a rendering of the Brandon Barn by Warren Kimble<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Thursday, the residents of Farmington have an important decision to make regarding the future of the Krell Farm. The town is holding a special referendum vote, allowing residents to decide if the town should buy 90 of the farm&#8217;s 98 acres for $6.75 million, which will preserve the land as open space. If Farmington&#8217;s residents decide against buying the acreage, a developer will most likely step in and buy the land, at a much<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt three\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/15\/will-farmington-buy-krell-farm\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1572,1595,1596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-the-valley","category-think-big"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybergquist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}