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Walton commissioners ask county attorney to draft agricultural conservation easement program
Summary
After a University of Florida economist briefed the board on agricultural conservation easements, Walton County commissioners directed staff to return with a draft resolution and later ordinance outlining a local program to help preserve working farmland.
Walton County commissioners on Tuesday asked the county attorney to prepare a draft resolution and, later, an ordinance that would establish a county-level agricultural conservation easement program after a presentation from a University of Florida extension economist.
The board heard from Nathan Pilardi, assistant professor and extension economist in the University of Florida's food and resource economics department, who described how agricultural conservation easements buy only development rights from willing landowners while keeping the land in private ownership. “An agricultural conservation easement is a less than fee acquisition of development rights on agriculturally productive land,” Pilardi said, adding that…
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