Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: conservation easement

[Audrey Watson (audrey]

At Winslow cohousing in Bainbridge Island, we put 1 acre of woods (we 
have 5 acres) into a conservation easement with the Bainbridge Island 
Land Trust.  They have all the legal stuff all set up.  We had to pay a 
fee/donation? to the land trust .  We do get a property tax adjustment 
for having it in the land trust.  and since the land was zoned 
commercial/multi-family that helps. http://www.bi-landtrust.org/
It was a long community process to make the decision, as it permanently 
takes away other options for what we could have done with the land.
==audrey
winslow cohousing
bainbridge island, wa

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Joel Plotkin<joel [at] sunyit.edu>  wrote:

> >
> >  Coho'ers
> >  I'm interested in any rural cohousing group that has sold or donated
> >  conservation easements. Did the condo or corporation benefit and/or did you
> >  find a way to extend the tax deductions to individuals?
> >  Joel Plotkin
> >  Hundredfold Farm
> >  Orrtanna PA
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