Danville Vermont
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Danville Vermont
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Danville 2003 Land Owners Survey Results1- 5) Residency Status - Acreage Owned Total Surveys: 145 1) What is your residency Status? Responses 145 Danville Full Time: 114 Out of Town (Vt) 10 Out of State: 21 2) How many days a year do you spend in Danville? Responses 142 1-30 11 31-60 10 61-120 5 121-180 4 180+ 112 3) How many years have you or your ancestors owned land in Danville? Responses 144 0-5 21 6-10 11 11-20 22 21-50 38 51-100 20 100+ 32 4) What is the total amount of acreage you own in Danville? Responses: 145 1-3 32 101-150 14 4-10 11 151-200 7 11-25 20 201-250: 8 26-50 29 251-300 6 51-75 10 300 + 5 76-100 3 5) Do you lease land from someone else in town? If yes, how Responses: 145 many acres and for what reason? Yes: 10 Agriculture - acres: 760 Maple Production - acres: 75 No: 135 Agri-Tourism - acres: 5
Residency Status - Acerage Owned by Full Time Residents 1) What is your residency status? Fulltime: 114 2) How many days a year do you spend in Danville? Responses 113 1-30: 2 31-60: 1 61-120: 0 121-180 2 180+: 108 3) How many years have you or your ancestors owned land in Danville? Responses 113 0-5: 17 6-10: 9 11-20: 17 21-50 27 51-100 14 100+ 29 4) What is the total amount of acreage you own in Danville? Responses: 114 1-3: 32 101-150 9 4-10: 11 151-200 6 11-25: 16 201-250: 8 26-50: 15 251-300: 4 51-75: 9 300 +: 2 76-100: 2 5) Do you lease land from someone else in town? If yes, how Responses: 114 many acres and for what reason? Yes: 10 Agriculture - acres: 760 Maple Production - acres: 75 No: 104 Agri-Tourism - acres: 5 6) - What do you consider the major uses of your land? Choose all that apply in order of importance where 1 would be the primary use and 2 the second most important and so on. Of the 145 surveys, there were 17that had no response or the list was not prioritized. Priority 1 Priority 2 Priority 3 Priority 4 Priority 5+ Residential 91 4 3 1 3 Dairy Farming 7 1 0 1 2 Forestry 7 16 7 4 6 Investment 2 5 6 8 8 Livestock 5 5 4 0 4 Conservation 5 9 10 8 6 Recreation 12 9 6 7 16 Crops/Gardening 3 20 13 9 3 Wildlife Habitat 3 20 16 13 11 Aggregate 0 0 0 0 3 Other 7 25 - Sugarwoods 45 - Business 46 - Commercial 104 - Open Land 108 - Dog kennel 122 - Education 130 - Pleasure The priority listed as "5+" covers the listing of all those from 5 - 10. There were 15 given a priority of 5, 11 a priority of 6, 3 a priority of 7, 1 a priority of 9 and 2 a priority of 10. 7) 145 responses
8) Does your land provide direct or indirect benefits to the public? Please check all that apply in order of importance, again 1 being the primary benefit.* Total Surveys: 145 No Response: 38 Hunting/Fishing 68 Conservation 45 Wildlife Habitat 83 Scenic Vistas 47 Recreation 40 Economic Benefits 11 Other: 11 50 - I try to enhance neighborhood with garden. 57 - Parking 65 - Flower garden viewing 82 - VAST 83 - Children 107- Wild berries 109- Private road 115- Snowmobile trail 120- VAST trail through woodlot 125- Snowmobile trail 126- Watershed protection 130- We welcome careflu walkers anytime. Note: * - Fewer than half of the responses were given a priortiy. Most response just checked the boxes. 9) What considerations influence your decisions on how to manage your land or whether to buy or sell land. Of the 145 surveys, there were that had no response or the list was not prioritized. 34 Priority 1 Priority 2 Priority 3 Priority 4 Priority 5+ Property tax burden 28 19 9 4 4 Federal tax burden 1 1 0 2 5 State tax burden 2 2 1 2 6 Land use regulations 5 5 6 2 2 Development value 1 4 3 1 7 Need for working capital 2 1 6 0 2 Land characteristics: slope/soils 3 6 6 8 2 Interest in family members using land 17 14 10 1 4 Personal/spouse health and/or age 16 11 9 5 1 Protection of farm land, etc. 34 18 11 7 1 Other 9 28 - Location, recreation 56 - Cost of land 66 - Personal and family needs 83 - Community 91 - To keep village fields open and keep from development 104- Price of land 114- Community, school 122- Education 133- The maple trees 10.
11. What concerns you regarding land use and ownership?
11) What concerns you regarding land use and Ownership? Of the 145 surveys, there were that had no response or the list was not prioritized. 24 Priority 1 Priority 2 Priority 3 Priority 4 Priority 5+ Liability for accidents 13 10 3 9 11 Land use or zoning regulations 18 14 11 6 12 Subdivision of large parcels of land 14 9 4 3 11 Property damage / littering 3 7 4 9 15 Affordability of land in the future 18 14 11 6 12 Developing land for conservation 8 16 8 10 6 Having to sell - support retirement 8 10 8 3 4 Protection from development 21 20 12 5 8 Property taxes 41 11 22 12 9 Who do I leave my land 4 3 2 2 8 Changes in Danville 4 4 2 2 6 Other 3 28 - No plans for town in relation to economics: 1. Non-viable school system dollars, 2. non-viable school system education program.
107- We live on a very good 4th class road. My concern is haveing the town in the future look at keeping it open in the winter. As we get older, snowblowing it as we now do won't be possible.
133- Land owner rights!
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