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Easements
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in PEC’s entire nine-county service area.”
The largest single easement in the Piedmont, Mr. Dennis said, is the 2,300 acre Rockland Farm in Orange County, owned by the Neale family. The farm abuts Montpelier, James Madison’s home, and extends nearly to Gordonsville. The Neale parcel includes an 1,800 acre tract which cannot be subdivided further, according to Mr. Dennis.
Major easements like Mr. Dwyer’s tend to be the ones that receive public notice, Mr. Dennis said, but the VOF will accept scenic easements on parcels as small as 25 acres. Susan Babcock’s 40-acre farm on the Fodderstack Road, which adjoins the 400-acre Bird easement, “is a good example of its use on a smaller parcel.”
The Babcock and Bird parcels adjoin Mr. Dwyer’s property, and the three tracts together comprise 1,386 acres under easement1— more than two square miles.
Though Mr. Dwyer’s easement is quite restrictive, Mr. Dennis said, easements can be tailor-made to fit the requirements of individual landowners. “Some flexibility can be built in. Obviously, the more restrictive the better the VOF likes it, but they realize the necessities.”
Phil Irwin, the former president of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection and the first county resident to grant an openspace easement on his property, said
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