COMMUNITY PROJECT PROFILE the Clean Ohio Fund Clean Ohio Form

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farming has been a strong tradition in ohio for centuries but as time has gone by we've lost millions of acres of farmland to development all you have to do is look at columbus and see how it's pushing into surrounding counties to understand that it is eating up a lot of land that used to have farms on it if we don't have enough farm land we won't be able to produce enough food so ohio farm bureau worked hard to help pass issue 2 the clean ohio fund in november it's a continuation of a pilot program begun in 2000 providing money for farmland preservation green space protection development of recreational trails and cleanup of abandoned and polluted industrial sites or brownfield revitalization you're going into in most cases urban core urban areas big cities small towns but you're going to go where development has already taken place where a property has been polluted abandoned it's not wanted it's not used uh it's a wasted space use uh these clean ohio dollars to remediate that proper