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Article: Conservation Easement Allowed Construction of Second House.(Connecticut. Appellate Court)(Brief Article)
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- Land Use Law Report
- Article date:
- September 27, 2000
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The Connecticut Court of Appeals rejected a land trust's argument that a conservation covenant executed by landowners' predecessors in title as a condition of a rezoning barred construction of a second detached house on the property (Southbury Land Trust, Inc. v. Andricovich, No. AC 19635, Sept. 12, 2000).
As part of a rezoning creating a planned development district in 1983, the landowners executed a conservation easement that would restrict the use of a nine-acre farm, known as Parcel C of the planned development district, to uses set out in the zoning code amendment. The easement provided that within Parcel C, buildings and other structures were to be used ...