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recalled that a developer had approached Park authorities with a request for right-ofway through the Park in order to develop property above the Charlottesville watershed. Park personnel, concerned over the impact of development on the city’s water supply, contacted Charlottesville government representatives and proposed that the city purchase the property from the developer and then trade it to the Park for a tract donated by Charlottesville to Shenandoah Park in the 1920’s. In the transaction, the Park received 274 acres and the city of Charlottesville 187 acres.
In 1969, an exchange of 344 acres in two tracts of privately-owned land for 344 acres of Park property in Madison County was completed. Jacobsen reported that two islands of Park land outside the main Park boundary—“a management nightmare”—were swapped to Judge David Berry for a chunk of land "within spitting distance" of the Skyline Drive.
B. K. Haynes, a developer with offices in Front Royal and Madison County, was involved in another Park land trade in Rockingham County. Park officials exchanged 19 acres—some of it along a “jeep track” access road that Haynes needed to improve in order to develop other property he owned—for five parcels totalling 29.15 acres. According to Jacobsen, the land obtained by the Park resolved access problems and reduced maintainence budget by changing boundaries so that the Dry Run Falls fire road lay within the Park instead of running off and onto private property.
A final three-way transaction traded several tracts of Park land for a "key tract in the middle of the
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