Some creative thinking resulted in a win-win situation for the Land Trust and a property owner on Red Dog Road.

The owner wanted to make an adjustment to the boundary between two pieces of property she owned. What would normally have been a relatively simple procedure was complicated by the fact that the adjustment would create a single parcel that would be large enough to be subdivided in the future. In order to get county approval, the owner was going to have to apply for a re-zoning of the parcel, which would have cost $3,000.

Instead, the Land Trust suggested placing a "no-subdivide" conservation easement on the parcel, which would cost much less while achieving the same goal. The county approved the plan, the owner got the lot line adjustment, and the Land Trust now has a 6-acre conservation easement guaranteeing that the Nevada City parcel will not be subdivided in the future.