What are the steps necessary to preserving land?
Contact Dave Ziomek by email or phone to discuss your options. This is followed by a meeting with decision makers in your family about wishes and goals for the project; the town then conducts an appraisal to establish the fair market value of your land; options are then discussed relative to the approach to conservation: • Agricultural Preservation Restriction: The APR program allows the State, Town or combination of the two, to purchase the development rights on farmland in order to preserve the land’s use for agriculture. This voluntary program buys the development rights from the farmer or landowner, which is the difference between the fair market value of the land and the agricultural value of the property. • Conservation Restriction: A binding agreement under Mass General Law (MGL) that permanently protects land by limiting development on a property by placing conditions (restrictions) on how that property can be used in the future. • Fee Acquisition: The outright purchase of the
