In this video press release, Assembly Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Robert Andrzejczak (D-Cape May) and Allen Carter, a consultant for Tuckahoe Turf Farms, discuss legislation the assemblyman sponsored to allow recreational activity on lands protected by Pinelands development restrictions. The bill (A-3257) was prompted by the Pinelands Commission’s recent refusal to allow Tuckahoe Turf Farms, of Hammonton Township, to host youth soccer tournaments on the grounds. Specifically the commission ruled that the soccer tournaments violated a deed restriction limiting the farm’s recreational use to “low recreation” activities, such as hiking, hunting, canoeing, horseback riding and bicycling. Andrzejczak’s bill provides that a recreational use, like soccer, would be allowed on lands subject to a Pinelands development credit deed restriction, providing that recreational use involves only minimal or temporary impact on the agricultural or horticultural use of the lands and not include the development of any permanent structures on the land in question. Andrzejczak recently toured Tuckahoe Turf Farms as part of a series of statewide agriculture tours he is hosting to help members of his committee get a first-hand look at the various types of research, farming and food processing that makes up the backbone of the state’s agriculture and agro tourism industries.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 18:46:40 +0000
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