Alice Roemer, a representative of the trust, tells GlobeSt.com that the group is looking for support from the town and state for the purchase of the development rights. She says that if the town is able to purchase those rights, the land has to remain as farmland and cannot be developed for any other use.
Roemer notes that the financial details of the deal have not yet been worked out, but the amount to be paid is the difference between the value of the land as working farmland and as developable land.
"There is a lot of pressure on people in the town to sell their land," she says. The two farms consist of the town's last two large apple orchards and Roemer says that they preserve the "identity of the town."
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