Beaver County Agricultural Land Preservation Program on the Land Conservation Assistance Network

Beaver County Agricultural Land Preservation Program
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last updated: August 2022

The Pennsylvania Agricultural Conservation Easement Purchase Program Was Developed To Strengthen Pennsylvania's Agricultural Economy And Protect Prime Farmland. This Program Enables State, County And Local Governments To Purchase Conservation Easements From Farmers. The Program Was Approved In 1988 And The First Easement Was Purchased In December Of 1989. Pennsylvania Is The Number One State In The Country In The Preservation Of Farmland.

The Beaver County Agricultural Land Preservation Board have developed fair, equitable, objective, non-discriminatory procedures for determining easement purchase priorities and has adopted written policies and guidelines for purchasing easements.

The Beaver County Agricultural Land Preservation Board accepts new applications during the fourth quarter of each calendar year.

The purpose of this program is to:

Encourage landowners to make a long-term commitment to agriculture by offering them financial incentives and security of land use.
Protect normal farming operations in agricultural security areas from incompatible non-farmland uses that may render farming impracticable.
Protect farming operations from complaints of public nuisance against normal farming operations.
Assure conservation of viable agricultural lands in order to protect the agricultural economy of this Commonwealth.
Provide compensation to landowners in exchange for their relinquishment of the right to develop their private property.
Maximize agricultural easement purchase funds and protect the investment of taxpayers in agricultural conservation easements.
Preserve Beaver County agricultural productivity by buying easements on land most logically to remain as farmland in lieu of buying easements on land close to encroaching residential or commercial development.

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