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Lodi News-Sentinel: News- Acampo winery accused of violating the Uliamson Act: N... Page 3 of 3 <br /> The Williamson Act was adopted in 1965 to halt widespread urbanization of agricultural land. <br /> Under the program, property owners agree to not urbanize their land. In exchange, the county and <br /> state compensate them for their reduced property value. <br /> Counties have been partially reimbursed by the state for their reduced property value, but Gov. <br /> Arnold Schwarzenegger cut the state contributions to counties last year to $1,000. In San Joaquin <br /> County, the Board of Supervisors voted in November to absorb the $1.7 million the county <br /> previously received from the state. Schwarzenegger continued the funding reduction in his May <br /> budget update. <br /> The Williamson Act is important in San Joaquin County because it has 542,851 acres in the <br /> program. That's 12th-largest in the state, according to the California Department of Conservation. <br /> Kern County is largest with 1.7 million acres, followed by Fresno and Tulare counties, according <br /> to Department of Conservation spokesman Don Drysdale. <br /> There are about 16 million acres statewide in Williamson Act, about half the privately owned land <br /> in the state. <br /> —News-Sentinel staff. <br /> ©Copyright 2010, Lodi News-Sentinel, Lodi, CA. Powered by Blox CMS from <br /> TownNews.com. <br /> http://www.lodinews.com/news/article_945e6aO6-8ecO-5610-ba7b-1 fcOd8e8ac 1 a.html?mo... 7/14/2010 <br />