Justice property to be auctioned off | Local Government

Owned by James C. Justice Businesses, Inc., the land was put in a conservation easement in 2019, which prevents wide-scale advancement of the assets. The 4,500 acres are in the vicinity of Monticello.

Torrence, Browse, and Forehand Auctions is holding the auction, which will be executed in two phases. The very first phase will be 12:30 p.m. July 19 at the Boar’s Head Resort in Charlottesville. The stage will consist of 2,081 acres supplied in a few tracts from 521 acres to 925 acres, in accordance to an advertisement in the Everyday Development and a information launch from the company.

The second period auction will be held in November 2022.

“Make your mark on Charlottesville! Extraordinary option close to some of Virginia’s most special attributes including Morven, Highland, and Monticello,” the advertisement states. “Prime blank slate to create your exceptional estate or sprawling ranch from scratch.”

A conservation easement is a lasting agreement between a landowner and a conservation corporation or an easement holder that makes it possible for the landowner to keep ownership of the land but areas specified anticipations and restrictions on how the land will be managed.

The easement on this home is held by the Albemarle Conservation Easement Authority. That settlement will allow the assets to be divided into 5 parcels. Up to 10 households can be designed on the full assets.

“This assets is poised to turn out to be the site of Charlottesville’s future premier estate/ranch,” the group managing the auction reported in a information release.

An information and facts session about the auction will be held Friday, July 8, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Boar’s Head Resort’s Ednam Hall.

The property has additional than 800 acres of open land, miles of streams and views of Carter’s Mountain, in accordance to the release.

“While the property cannot be made into a massive-scale housing growth, most other features go unaltered,” the team claimed in the launch.

Mainly because the residence is in the Monticello viewshed, properties of far more than 1,000 square feet that are noticeable from Monticello will be topic to screening and architectural requirements to limit visibility, in accordance to the deed.

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns and operates Monticello, supported the choice in 2019 to area the home in a conservation easement.

Industrial and commercial things to do on the assets are confined to agriculture, equine actions, forestry, and the processing or sale of farm or forest products manufactured or partially made on internet site, according to the deed.

Purely natural resource-based instructional, scientific or leisure actions also are permitted as extensive as they are consistent with the conservation purposes of the easement.

Events with no far more than 40 attendees are permitted, while which is contingent on prior approval from the county’s easement authority.