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Landowners who participate in the program cite as its strongest features reduced local tax rates, a guarantee against changes in those taxes and the opportunity to contribute to the scenic and rural character of the county- tyEasements:
a permanent agreement.
Easements are the holy grail of land protection. An easement is forever. Landowners who grant an easement on their property are saying, in effect, “I want my property to look like this forever — scenic and rural.”
Both the federal government and the Commonwealth of Virginia offer substantial tax incentives to encourage easements.
Third degree of separation: the Farmland Preservation Program
Monira Rifaat, a local farmer and RCCA board member, was the catalyst in establishing the Farmland Preservation Program, a county-sponsored easement program that pays farmers for the development right to farmland in return for an easement.
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