TRACKING OUR PROGRESS How farmland is being preserved amid development

Municipalities along Butler County’s southern border have taken different approaches to preserving farmland and encouraging development.

Access to interstate and state highways and proximity to Pittsburgh make Cranberry, Adams, Middlesex, Clinton and Buffalo townships attractive to commercial and residential developers, but the fertile soil in those municipalities makes the land desirable for farming.

In Clinton Township, there are more farms preserved through the county’s farmland preservation program than any other township in the county. The program pays farmers for easements that prohibit non-agricultural development, which the township addresses through a targeted approach.

“Clinton Township is a real advocat

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