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tion value, he said, such as land that abuts waterways, which would help control water quality.
“Not every property is a benefit to the community to put into easement,”he said.
Even before the Rappahannoick County Board of Supervisors agreed to consider coholding easements with the Piedmont Environmental Council, the county has had the ability to enter easement agreements with landowners and currently co-holds a 346acre easement with Virginia Outdoors Foundation, County Administrator John McCarthy said. Co-holding easements with the Piedmont Environmental Council would allow the Board of Supervisors to protect properties not on the top of the Virginia Outdoors Foundation’s to-do list.
Also, the Board of Supervisors would bring additional protections to easement agreements, as stricter rules govern easements held by state entities.
“In my opinion there are some easement-worthy properties that are on less than 100 acres,” McCarthy said.
The next step is for the Piedmont Environmental Council to present a property to McCarthy and the board.
“We’re nowhere until there’s an easement candidate that I think is a slam dunk that I want to bring to them,” he said.
Loock said there are a couple of properties the group is planning to show McCarthy.
E-mail the reporter at mpelkey@timespapers. com.
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