A California lawmaker will try again to close what some see as a loophole that could let property developers offset project costs using a tax break meant to protect farmland.<\/p>\n
The policy at issue, known as the Williamson Act, allows farmers to lower their property taxes if they enter into a contract with their county government to keep using their land for agriculture over a 10-year period. About 16 million acres of California land are enrolled, representing about one-third of all privately held land and about one-half of all agricultural land in the state, according to<\/a> the California Department of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California lawmaker will try again to close what some see as a loophole that could let property…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,15981,15983,15980,15984,4897,15979,15982],"class_list":["post-19232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-government-contract-costs","tag-infrastructure-funding","tag-infrastructure-legislation","tag-real-property-tax","tag-state-securities-legislation","tag-state-tax-legislation","tag-valuation-of-real-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}