Scenic easement definition

Scenic easement means the right to control the use of related adjacent land, in- cluding airspace above such land, for the purpose of protecting the scenic view from waters within a scenic waterway; but such control does not affect, without the owner’s consent, any regular use exercised prior to the acquisition of the easement, and the landowner retains the right to uses of the land not specifically restricted by the ease- ment.
Scenic easement means a servitude which is acquired by gift, purchase, exchange or condemnation and is designed to permit land to remain in private ownership for its normal agricultural, residential or other use and, at the same time, to restrict and control the future use of the land for the purpose of preserving, restoring or enhancing the natural and historic beauty of the land subject to the scenic easement.
Scenic easement means a perpetual easement in land which

Examples of Scenic easement in a sentence

  • Scenic easement areas must be recorded for all areas not included within the approved building envelopes.

  • A condition of approval is that all slopes of 30% or greater be placed in a Scenic easement that does not allow further development and that said Scenic Easement be granted to the County of Monterey in perpetuity.

  • Scenic easement is the right to control the use of land to protect river values.

  • The Wright’s property is located adjacent to the Selway River within the federally-designated Wild and Scenic River corridor; it is encumbered by a Wild and Scenic easement held by the U.S. Forest Service to protect and maintain wild and scenic values on the property, as alleged in more detail below.

  • In this, such flying visitors call to mind the English poet Ted Hughes’ (1982: 43) portrait of another species of hunter:‘Nothing has changed since I began.


More Definitions of Scenic easement

Scenic easement means the right to control the use of land (including the air space above such land) within the authorized boundaries of a component of the wild and scenic rivers system, for the purpose of protecting the natural qualities of a designated wild, scenic or recreational river area, but such control shall not affect, without the owner’s consent, any regular use exercised prior to the acquisition of the easement. For any designated wild and scenic river, the appropriate Secretary shall treat the acquisition of fee title with the reservation of regular existing uses to the owner as a scenic easement for purposes of this Act. Such an acquisition shall not constitute fee title ownership for purposes of section 6(b).
Scenic easement means a perpetual easement in land which (i) is held
Scenic easement means a perpetual easement in land which (i) is held for the benefit of the people of North Carolina, (ii) is specifically enforceable by its holder or beneficiary, and (iii) limits or obligates the holder of the servient estate, his heirs, and assigns with respect to their use and management of the land and activities conducted thereon. The object of such limitations and obligations is the maintenance or enhancement of the natural beauty of the land in question or of the areas affected by it.
Scenic easement means the negotiated right to control
Scenic easement means the right to control the use of land (including the air space above such land) within the authorized boundaries of a component of the wild and scenic
Scenic easement means the negotiated right to control the use of land, including the air space above the land, for the purpose of protecting the scenic view throughout the visual corridor.
Scenic easement or “open space easement” means an easement granted to the public whereby the owner relinquishes or limits the right to construct improvements on the land. (Government Code Section 51051, Civil Code Section 815.1.) [Ord. 962 § 2 (Exh. A), 1989.]