Supervisors extend ag easement purchase program

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors expressed a desire to continue the Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easement (PACE) program.

A 5-0 Board of Supervisors vote Dec. 4 directed staff to acquire easements from the 16 properties not funded during the PACE pilot program earlier this year while referring the acquisition costs of those properties to budget, directed preparation of a mitigation program as an expanded component of the PACE program, and directed to budget annual expenditures to cover placing additional properties into the PACE program.

“This is exactly what we intended woul...