Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Land Trust/Conservation Easement

[Sheila Braun (sbraun]

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Hi Bren.

We are in the process of doing just that. We are going to give the development 
rights to the Vermont Land Trust in perpetuity. The land will never be 
developed. The reasons we did this are that the town really liked knowing that 
the development rights would be held by an entity that has national respect, 
and also that we ourselves would like for the land never to be developed.

I can send you more details on or off list (does anyone else want them?).

Sheila Braun
Project Coordinator
Champlain Valley Cohousing
www.champlainvalleycohousing.org


On 20 Dec 2002 16:55 EST you wrote:

> Dec 14, 2002:  Check out new URL at end of this (and every list message) for 
> Cohousing-L info page.  Season's Greetings.  Fred, list manager.
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> 
> I'm wondering if any of the cohousing groups out there have looked into 
> locking up their land with a conservation easement. As I understand 
> this, it would prevent the cohousing group as well as any future owners 
> from ever subdividing, building on, or developing their land other than 
> what already exists on it. 
> 
> The intent is to preserve a particular piece of land in perpetuity. I 
> know this probably doesn't make sense for smaller urban developments, 
> but I'm wondering if any larger cohousing properties have done so.
> 
> Bren
> -- 
> Bren Smith
> bren [at] lene.com
> http://www.lene.com
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