There's no such thing as forever when it comes to land deals. People in Florida have tried that and what we e learned in the past few years is that city, county, and state officials always sell out to the highest bidder.
I was the executor of an estate who had a farmland easement on their property. The deceased had even stated in the easement legal paperwork that he didn’t care how much the property went up in value around him. He wanted it to always remain in the Easement.
20% was left to the local Catholic Church. A family member got 80% of the property. The estate lawyer had messed up wording in the will and ended up creating an ‘undivided interest’ ownership in the property so both the church and main beneficiary had equal say in what happened to the property. I notified the church representative about their 20% and that it was in a farmland easement and couldn’t be split up, mined or built on. His response was ‘Don’t worry. We can get it out of the easement and it’s worth millions’. The family member with 80% wanted to keep it in the family. It cost them thousands of dollars and took years to force the Catholic Diocese to honor the stated wishes of the deceased.
That was a shame, but the family fought a valiant fight and finally won-hooray for them. Lawyers are generally causing problems and want to help, but really don't know what to do. And others are put for themselves and what they can get.
I am sick of developers, they built only for illegals and earn billions of dollars doing that. Destroy everything animals lives vegetation all in their path just to make money
Development rights to the township just means at some point in the future some corrupt piece of shit will give the land for development to some corp who promises to farm. They will sit on the land and let it deteriorate and invite undesirables to inhabit said land. Then they will tell the township they can’t develop it as farmland and they should do something good for the town like build a data center. Governments cannot be trusted because they are simply made of the most recent scammers and various worthless people. Forgot to add that said corp will also have a lot of money to throw at any local election that gives power to whoever gets to decide what the township does with that land.
Our farmers sold out to solar farms and now they want a data center. If I had 100 acres of farmland I'd make $1mil a year. I just paid $1 for a pepper. I think there's huge money in rehabbing farmland for pastures and organic produce.
Good thing for him, if the county his farm is in keeps it as farm land. Maybe bad for him (and the rest of us who live in Maryland ) if they re-nig on their promise to keep it as farm land. We will see.
There's no such thing as forever when it comes to land deals. People in Florida have tried that and what we e learned in the past few years is that city, county, and state officials always sell out to the highest bidder.
No sincere effort is wasted.
I was the executor of an estate who had a farmland easement on their property. The deceased had even stated in the easement legal paperwork that he didn’t care how much the property went up in value around him. He wanted it to always remain in the Easement.
20% was left to the local Catholic Church. A family member got 80% of the property. The estate lawyer had messed up wording in the will and ended up creating an ‘undivided interest’ ownership in the property so both the church and main beneficiary had equal say in what happened to the property. I notified the church representative about their 20% and that it was in a farmland easement and couldn’t be split up, mined or built on. His response was ‘Don’t worry. We can get it out of the easement and it’s worth millions’. The family member with 80% wanted to keep it in the family. It cost them thousands of dollars and took years to force the Catholic Diocese to honor the stated wishes of the deceased.
That was a shame, but the family fought a valiant fight and finally won-hooray for them. Lawyers are generally causing problems and want to help, but really don't know what to do. And others are put for themselves and what they can get.
I am sick of developers, they built only for illegals and earn billions of dollars doing that. Destroy everything animals lives vegetation all in their path just to make money
A data center is a server farm
So technically its still a farm land
(sorry just bein a dick)
Worth the analogy
Nice win.
I give it a few years. Maybe less until the city sells it. The legalese and ‘preservation programs’ mean absolutely dick all in the long run.
All it takes is one new administration being willing. Or the budget spent on maintaining it to become too costly.
Development rights to the township just means at some point in the future some corrupt piece of shit will give the land for development to some corp who promises to farm. They will sit on the land and let it deteriorate and invite undesirables to inhabit said land. Then they will tell the township they can’t develop it as farmland and they should do something good for the town like build a data center. Governments cannot be trusted because they are simply made of the most recent scammers and various worthless people. Forgot to add that said corp will also have a lot of money to throw at any local election that gives power to whoever gets to decide what the township does with that land.
Our farmers sold out to solar farms and now they want a data center. If I had 100 acres of farmland I'd make $1mil a year. I just paid $1 for a pepper. I think there's huge money in rehabbing farmland for pastures and organic produce.
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Good thing for him, if the county his farm is in keeps it as farm land. Maybe bad for him (and the rest of us who live in Maryland ) if they re-nig on their promise to keep it as farm land. We will see.
Something similar happened near me recently too
Bless that man!
Sounds similar to the deal Beth put together in Yellowstone to keep the vultures from her family's land.
Data centers can easily be built on land that is not useful for farming.
Silver Spring Township is in Cumberland County PA. Basically Harrisburg area.