Orange County Land Trust v. Tamira Amelia Farms, LLC

Determining a property’s boundaries is a necessary part of a land trust’s due diligence. This document lays out how to read a survey and includes a checklist on what to check and an exercise to practice your skills.

When a landowner hands you a survey they had done, or you find a survey in the process of acquiring a new easement or preserve, it is highly tempting to stash the survey away in the file drawer and forget about it. But then you may have a bigger problem!

This is latest in a number of cases to distinguish what kinds of activities fall within the definition of farming or agriculture.

The court denied the land trust’s motion to dismiss because the easement required land trust to have a reasonable basis for refusing to give its consent for improvements on the property and the question of reasonableness required further development of the record.

Join Forrest King-Cortes, Land Trust Alliance, Colin Custer and Raffa Saposhnik, Yale School of the Environment, as they lay out what land trusts need to know about affordable housing and how land trusts can contribute solutions.