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Protecting the Thoroughbred Country, PDR Program - Maner Ferguson
Published: 1/9/2005
2004 Southeast Watershed Roundtable Presentaion Click here for full agenda
The Fayette County Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) Program is now just over three years old. The voluntary PDR program seeks to permanently protect 50,000 acres of Rural Fayette County farmland by purchasing future development rights from farmers in exchange for placing a Conservation Easement on their property. The Conservation Easement prohibits or limits future subdivisions and requires Farm Conservation and Ag Water Quality plans be followed. Administered by a staff of two and directed by a citizen-based group called the Rural Land Management Board (RLMB), the following accomplishments have been reached: • Local, State and Federal funding is being used to purchase the conservation easements. • 10,702.491 acres are under easement eighty three farms. Over 1/5th of the goal. • A web site is up on the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government web site. For more information look us up at www.lfucg.com/pdr or contact the PDR Office at (858) 425-2226 or 2227. The presentation will discuss how the program was conceived and implemented. We will discuss the application and selection process and how the amount for easements is determined.
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