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Lee County approves revised conservation easement policy and directs rollback tax funds to farmland preservation
Summary
The board amended its conservation easement policy to allow county funding to help purchase easements in certain cases, approved a budget amendment redirecting 2025 rollback tax revenue to the Farmland Preservation Fund, and tasked staff and the agricultural advisory board with vetting requests.
The Lee County Board of Commissioners on March 16 approved changes to the county’s conservation easement policy that allow the board, in its discretion, to allocate funding to offset costs related to conservation easements, including an amount that could be paid directly to a landowner for the purchase of an easement.
Staff and a representative from Triangle Land Conservancy explained that many easement projects rely on fluid funding packages combining federal, state and private grants and that…
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