Albemarle County Acquisition of Conservation Easements on the Land Conservation Assistance Network

Albemarle County Acquisition of Conservation Easements
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last updated: August 2022

The Acquisition of Conservation Easements (“ACE”) program was designed to provide a financial incentive for landowners of modest means to protect their family farm from future development. For eligible properties, the County appraises the property and its proposed easement, and pays the landowner up to 100% of easement value, based on a sliding adjusted gross income scale.

Each year, the ACE program has an application/enrollment deadline on October 31st. A ranking evaluation system is used to award points from 17 different evaluation criteria including: 1) open space resources (parcel size or whether a property adjoins other permanently protected property); 2) threat of conversion to development and; 3) natural, cultural, historical or scenic resources (mountaintops, working family farms, important viewsheds, scenic highways and rivers, watersheds, productive soils and historically significant properties). Any property that earns a minimum of 20 points is eligible for consideration. Due to limited funding each year; however, properties with the highest point total are the highest priority.

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