Correction for last post

The website for the quote below was incorrect. It should read    http://www.vlrc.org/articles/168.html     Documents detailing what has happened  to landowners in other Heritage Areas do not paint a pretty picture. Once the National Park Service hands down its “guidelines,” property rights go out the window. And there is no “opting-out.” Steve Hodapp ( formerly worked with the National Park Service  to create the NHA program and was point person for NHA legislation on the House Resource Committee) said,  ”It (opting-out) is a physical and geographical impossibility. One is either inside the boundaries of a National Heritage Area, or outside the boundaries. And if one is within the boundaries, and there is a management plan that prescribes, indeed mandates, programs and activities to protect, enhance, and manage natural and scenic values within the National Heritage Area—in one way or another private landowners are not goint to be allowed to convert their cornfield to a pig farm or paint their silo purple with yellow stripes.”  From The Virginia Land Rights Coalition website.  NHA Testimony from Robert J. Smith.   

   http://www.vlrc.org/articles/168.html             

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