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Local Governments: Tools and Programs for preserving Key Lands Moody Hall, 2nd Floor, Lounge Tuesday, April 10 10:00 – 5:00 pm Developing a Local Farm and Forest Land Preservation Program Moderator Robins Buck, Agribusiness Development Services, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS)
10:00 am - 11:00 am Challenges Facing Working Lands/Why Save Working Lands Bob Wagner, Managing Director, Field Programs and Policy Development, American Farmland Trust
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Tools and Techniques for Preserving Working Lands Brock Herzberg, Legislative Specialist, Government Relations, Virginia Farm Bureau
Ted McCormick, Director of
Governmental Affairs, Virginia Association of Counties Bob Wagner, Managing Director, Field Programs and Policy Development, American Farmland Trust
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Developing a Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) Program in Virginia Kevin Schmidt, Coordinator, Office of Farmland Preservation, VDACS Ray Pickering, Agricultural Development Director, Fauquier County Harry Atherton, Chairman, Fauquier County Board of Supervisors David Hurt, Franklin County Board of Supervisors Scott Martin, Director, Franklin County Economic Development
Wednesday, April 11 1:30 – 3:00 pm Land Conservation 101: Introduction to Conserving Land Everything you wanted to know about conserving land, but were afraid to ask. Moderator Kevin Schmidt, Coordinator, Office of Farmland Preservation, VDACS Presenters
Bob Lee, Executive Director,
Virginia Outdoors Foundation Elizabeth Tune, Virginia Department of Historic Resources
Larry Mikkelson, Virginia
Department of Forestry Beth Obenshain, Executive Director, New River Land Trust
3:30 – 5:00 pm Funding and Financing Land Conservation This session will include a discussion of ways that local and state governments have funded and financed land conservation across the country. The session also will provide an update on funding efforts for land conservation at the state and local levels in Virginia
Presenters Daniel P. O'Connell, Evergreen Capital Advisors, Inc.
David Carter, Southeast
Regional Conservation Finance Director, Trust for Public Land
Thursday, April 12 1:00 – 2:30 pm Transfer of Development Rights TDR enabling legislation in Virginia
Ted McCormick, Director of
Governmental Affairs, Virginia Association of Counties
TDR experiences in other states: Elements to a successful program
Margaret Walls, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
How a TDR program might look in Virginia
Joe Lerch, Virginia Land
Planner, AICP, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
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