{"id":32437,"date":"2023-05-26T20:47:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T00:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=32437"},"modified":"2023-05-26T20:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T00:47:42","slug":"the-state-pays-nearly-97-million-to-protect-almost-39000-acres-from-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/05\/26\/the-state-pays-nearly-97-million-to-protect-almost-39000-acres-from-development\/","title":{"rendered":"The state pays nearly $97 million to protect almost 39000 acres from development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A dozen landowners have sold the conservation easements on 38,848 acres of their agricultural property to the state of Florida for nearly $97 million. The acreage includes land in Charlotte and Polk counties.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Florida-vegegetable-farm.shutterstock_123668812-1024x576-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Florida-vegegetable-farm.shutterstock_123668812-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Florida-vegegetable-farm.shutterstock_123668812-1024x576-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Florida-vegegetable-farm.shutterstock_123668812-1024x576-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In exchange for selling the development rights to the properties, the state will allow the landowners to continue owning and working the land. The impetus behind the deal is to \u201censure the land, wildlife, and agriculture are protected forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dozen landowners have sold the conservation easements on 38,848 acres of their agricultural property to the state of Florida for nearly $97 million. The acreage includes land in Charlotte&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[5107],"class_list":["post-32437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-the-state-pays-nearly-97-million-to-protect-almost-39000-acres-from-development"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}