On the recordFebruary 6, 2002
When I was in the Alabama House of Representatives, somewhere in the late 1970's, somewhere around 1978, 1979. Let me say this, that is very important because as we find our suburban areas expanding, in many instances shopping centers are built 3 and 4 miles outside of the city or outside of the suburban area surrounded by a wooden area, by woods, trees or by farms. If you really evaluate the farmland based upon what it is near, of course it is going to carry the value of the shopping center, and of course the farmers do not make the kind of money that the shopping centers do. So they do not have the opportunity, the farmers, to pay those kind of taxes, and that is one way, through a reassessment, that land has been taken in the past by government.
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