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was protected from federal condemnation. “That’s not guaranteed,” Bolger said.
“Then if I want to put easements on my land to stop a powerline I’d be better off giving it to the Park (Shenandoah National) than to you?” Ed Harris asked.
“Probably so,” Bolger agreed, noting that even the Federal government is restricted from placing interstate highways or powerlines through its own parkland.
Easements work ideally when a group of adjoining landowners give them, Bolger said. He noted that Route 626 in Fauquier County, between The Plains and Middleburg, may become a “de facto” scenic highway through easements.
“WITHOUT being officially declared a scenic highway by the Governor or a state agency, it may achieve that protected status,” he said. “One landowner has already granted a significant easement and there are indications that others along the road are planning to do the same,” Bolger said.
“There will be some inholdings—tracts where the owners don’t want to grant an easement—but at least much of the landscape can be preserved this way.
“People are beginning to pull together,” he said. “But never all together because some ‘just don’t see it that way.’”
Bolger added that easements don’t have to be for vast expanses of open space or woodland. “We have a 51 acre easement within a townhouse complex in Fredericksburg.”
ONCE THE easement is granted, the land is taxed as farmland, not on increasing speculative value
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