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Board authorizes offers on three farms and OKs title searches pending owner acceptance

Local land preservation board (name not specified in transcript) · November 18, 2025
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Summary

At a local farmland preservation meeting, the board voted to make offers to several landowners at appraised values and authorized title searches and surveys should owners accept; members disputed whether appraisals reflected nearby market sales.

Unidentified Speaker 1 moved and the board approved offers to multiple landowners for several preserved farms at the appraised per‑acre values discussed at the meeting. The motion included specific per‑acre figures for the named parcels and was seconded; members recorded their assent by voice.

The vote followed a discussion of appraisal methodology. Unidentified Speaker 4 explained state guidance: appraisers produce a fair‑market value without an easement and another with an easement, then subtract the two figures to derive the easement value. "That's the way that they instruct…

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