Conservation easements provide an alternative approach to land conservation.
Ranchers fear that this might lead to limits on their ability to sell their land when they need to, but they also see opportunities for marketing 'conservation easements' that provide cash payment to ranchers in exchange for giving up the right to develop the land.
Because the easement provides only limited rights of use and the servient owner regains full rights to use the property once the easement terminates, buying an easement is usually less expensive than buying an ownership interest in land.
An improved route along the city easement there would provide better access to the Fire Road making many of us regular walkers very happy, and more importantly, keep us safe by making the trail more navigable and separating hikers and walkers.
The rationale, which I find pretty reasonable, is that the easements don't provide resources with which the exempt organization can operate.
For example, you may have to provide financial compensation, or maybe another easement, in order for the other party to agree to release their rights under the easement.
This is especially true in developments in outlying suburbs and planned communities, where developers own the easements, providing a barrier to entry against cable, telephone and other rivals.
The Nature Conservancy has begun a $35 million fund-raising drive, suggesting that it expects the state to provide $70 million to $80 million for its purchases and easements.
The Court acknowledges that the Nollans' seawall could provide "a clear demarcation of the public easement," and thus avoid merely shifting "the location of the boundary dispute further on to the private owner's land". Ibid.
Easements are commonly used to provide for driveways, private roadways, parking, utility lines, irrigation ditches, and pipelines.
Builders are required to provide the foundation with a 10-foot-wide easement for horse trails around any newly developed property.
