RESOLUTION

 

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CHAIRMAN TO ENTER INTO OPEN SPACE USE AGREEMENTS WITH LANDOWNERS

 

            WHEREAS, Fauquier County has established a special land assessment program for the preservation of real estate devoted to open space, pursuant to Section 58.1-3233 of the Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended; and

 

            WHEREAS, a landowner may qualify for the special land assessment program for the preservation of open space upon the execution and recordation of a written open space use agreement between the landowner and the Board of Supervisors; and

 

            WHEREAS, to qualify for the special land assessment program for the preservation of open space, the real estate to be entered into the program must meet the general and specific standards promulgated by the Director of the Department of Conservation and Historic Resources, as set forth in the Manual of the State Land Evaluation Advisory Council (1992); and

 

            WHEREAS, the hereinafter identified landowners have requested that the Board of Supervisors enter into an Open Space Use Agreement for the preservation of certain land owned by them for the purposes of qualifying for the special land assessment program under the open space category; and

 

            WHEREAS, the Board of Supervisors has determined that the hereinafter described land meets the general and specific standards as promulgated by the Director of the Department of Conservation and Historic Resources for entering into an Open Space Use Agreement committing the landowner not to change the use of the land to a nonqualifying use for a time period of eight years; now, therefore, be it

 

            RESOLVED by the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors this 12th day of May 2005, That the Chairman be, and is hereby, authorized to execute an Open Space Use Agreement with the hereinafter identified landowners:

  

 

NAME

IDENTIFICATION

ACREAGE

RENEWAL

Humes, William Haywood, Jr.

Loikow, Ann Hume

McIntosh, Susan McCarty Hume

Hume, Robert Howard

 

 

6917-93-5145-000

13072 Monterey Estates Dr.

Herndon, VA  20171

37.8899

 

RENEWAL

Vavrina, Robert T.

Vavrina, Char Y.

 

6020-45-1020-000

PO Box 318

Markham, VA  22643

26.2487

 

NEW

Collier, Maggi C.

 

6959-31-0798-000

4559 Achilles Ln.

Marshall, VA  20115

31.2091

 

; and, be it

 

            RESOLVED FURTHER, That upon execution and recordation of the Agreement that the described real estate shall be eligible for classification as Open Space under the Fauquier County Special Land Assessment Program.