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Small Parcel Purchase Procedures
According to US law, landowners have first rights to any federal land adjacent to theirs if the government decides to sell it.; and the local ranger has made it very clear that he feels that the fragments of Forest Service land lying between our criss-crossed mining claims cannot be efficiently administered. Therefore, the Forest Service wants to divest its self of the headache -- but depending on how the Planning Commission zoned the USFS land next to yours last year, you may consider this very important or much less so.It's too late to pool your requests with other GCCHLA members in order to save money on overhead costs, but you can still take advantage of your priority as an adjacent landowner.
Until mid-2000, the process was progressing at "federal bureaucracy speed" (which effectively encumbered the land from misuse by others without straining any of our budgets in YG). Since then, the person responsible for implementing the program in CCC has been transferred to Boulder -- and progress has slowed even more.
When purchasing any parcel from the USFS, the following (federal law, and CCC zoning rules) apply:
- [federal]: Land must be adjacent to yours.
- [federal]: Expect total cost (land, surveys, title search, and other bureaucratic folderol) to be about $6-8,000/acre, 1999 valuation.
- [CCC]: Zoning law current at the time of purchase will apply.
| Note: | In anticipation of picking up what we don't (and probably at bargain-basement prices), the County zoned this land in late 1999; if what you purchase is zoned "Buffer" when you take possession, you will have to request a rezoning in order to do anything with the purchase except use it as a nature trail and a privacy block. The Planning Commission implied that this would not be too difficult -- you decide what that means. |
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