Land Use Planning Terminology

noun Agricultural land that is used for growing crops or raising livestock.

• The government is implementing policies to protect and preserve farmland from urban development.
• My grandparents own a vast expanse of farmland in the countryside.
• Let's take a drive out to the farmland and enjoy the fresh air.
• Her mind was like a fertile farmland, ready to cultivate new ideas and thoughts.

noun a unit of volume commonly used in the United States in reference to large-scale water resources, equal to the volume of water needed to cover one acre of land to a depth of one foot

• The reservoir has a capacity of 10,000 acre-feet of water.
• The lake can hold about 10,000 acre-feet of water.
• That dam can store a whole bunch of acre-feet.
• Her love for him was as deep as an acre-foot of water.