HENDERSONVILLE – Henderson County faces a tight timeline and procedural hurdles as it works to get a measure on the November ballot which could approve major funding for its new but growing farmland preservation program.
If voted up by county residents, the measure would allow the county to borrow $25 million as part of a general obligation bond. The county would use that money to pay farmers who want to add deed restrictions to their land, preventing it from ever being subdivided or built up in the face of intense and mounting development pressure.
Officials hurried over the past weeks to advertise special-called meetings and public hearings in time to meet the deadlines set by state law…