What would happen if the landowner sold his development rights and then decided to change the type of farming or quit farming all together?
Nothing in this program requires the landowner to farm his property. Selling development rights simply restricts the landowner or anyone else from developing the property for non-farm purposes. If the landowner wished to change his type of farming, he would be perfectly free to do so. If he didn’t want to farm the property at all, he would be free to lease it to someone else to farm, or sell it. The only restriction on the landowner or any subsequent owner is that the property cannot be developed for non-farm purposes. In other words, even if the landowner sold the property, the restriction against development would transfer with the land.
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- What would happen if the landowner sold his development rights and then decided to change the type of farming or quit farming all together?
