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to offer greater incentives for participation.
The FDR programs complement a more popular conservation approach in which landowners enter a preservation agreement with a landholding body, such as the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, and in return receive tax credits.
"The vast majority of people donate their land to the Virginia Outdoors Foundation and they get a tax credit out of it,” said Rappahannock County Administrator John McCarthy.
He said the up-front-cash incentive of the PDR programs better fits the needs of some landowners.
"This program basically exists for those property owners who don't have the income and basically need the cash,” McCarthy said.
Rappahannock County puts aside about $50,000 a year for purchase of development rights, McCarthy said. Before the Office of Farmland Preservation began offering dollar-for-dollar matching funds to counties participating in the PDR program, Rappahannock purchased the rights for only one property, paying about $170,000 for the rights on a 340-acre farm. McCarthy said. Rappahannock is looking into two properties this year after
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