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Delegation hears requests to change conservation-easement rules that can extinguish child-lot rights on inheritance
Summary
Delegation members and county officials discussed cases where conservation-easement rules prevent descendants from establishing "child lots" after a property owner's death; delegates agreed to draft language with legislators in the appropriate committee.
Delegation members and commissioners discussed concerns about conservation easements and how certain easement rules can extinguish the right to create a child lot when property ownership transfers to a surviving spouse or other inheritor.
Speakers described scenarios in which an agricultural property owner had intended to create a child lot for a biological child but died before the child lot was established; under current easement…
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