Over 20 percent of county farmlands and open spaces are permanently preserved.
The community manages more than 800 acres of permanently preserved open space and its own wastewater treatment facility.
But no additional space can be converted to office use unless an equal amount is permanently preserved in the district for manufacturing tenants.
As of 1993, 116 farms covering 17,141 acres had been permanently preserved by the program at a cost of about $60 million.
"People recognize how important it is to be able to permanently preserve contiguous property to protect the water supply and wildlife management."
We should be thankful to the historian whose solid work will permanently preserve the truth.
The sound land use portion of the agreement talks about permanently preserving 20 percent of the watershed from development by 2010.
The clay tablets were then baked to harden them and permanently preserve the marks.
The house and its acreage are now placed under a conservation easement to ensure that it be permanently preserved as open space.
It runs a chemical museum "to permanently preserve historically significant chemical research samples."