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Board authorizes purchase of riverside parcel for recreation and conservation
Summary
Supervisors authorized the county administrator to proceed with a bargain-sale acquisition of property on tax map 105-11 for a recreational and conservation area on the Nottoway River that would include a boat ramp; motion passed by voice vote.
Following closed-session review, a supervisor moved and the board agreed to authorize the county administrator to execute documents necessary to acquire property on tax map 105-11 in a bargain sale agreement for use as a recreational and conservation area on the Nottoway River.
Board discussion noted the acquisition would not require a county-dollar outlay (the motion described a bargain sale and use of grant funding) and would include public access features such as a boat ramp intended for canoeing and kayaking, creating a roughly six-mile paddling run to a Monroe Bridge landing. The motion was seconded and approved by voice vote; the chair authorized the county administrator (Mr. Storey) to sign required paperwork.
Why it matters: the acquisition expands public access and conservation acreage along the Nottoway River and was presented as a ‘‘win-win’’ for recreation and preservation without direct county capital cost in the motion as described.
