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only to a limited degree. Someone with 100 acres and five children will not be able to leave 20 acres to each and still have his easement accepted by the Outdoors Foundation. According to Dennis, division to 50 acre parcels is usually the smallest lot size that the Foundation will accept although it has accepted easements occasionally on land marked for division into 30 acre tracts with inheritance.
Even without an easement, farmers who are serious about their land remaining in agricultural use would have to control land division, Dennis maintained. “Obviously, there’s a stopping point someplace if you want to preserve the farm,” he said, or divisions to satisfy children, grandchildren and great grandchildren will eventually result in a subdivision.
The Virginia Outdoors Foundation’s restriction against accepting easements on property designated for development on a locality’s Comprehensive Plan makes Rappahannock a good county to work in, according to Dennis. “Depending on who you talk to, either Rappahannock doesn’t have a Comprehensive Plan or we have one and the whole county is essentially in a conservation zone.”
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