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Does Land Conservation Raise Property Taxes?
Alexey Kalinin, Katharine Sims, Spencer R. Meyer, and Jonathan R. Thompson, 2022
“Our research assessed the impacts of new land protection on local property tax rates in more than 1400 municipalities in New England between 1990 and 2015. Average impacts on tax rates were small: the average area of new protection of 85 acres was associated with an increase in a homeowner’s annual tax bill of $0.72 per $100,000 of property value…”
