RECENT CALIFORNIA DECISIONS

October 2007

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Attorney General Opines that Grant of Conservation Easement Does Not Constitute a ‘Division’ of Land and Is Not Subject to Subdivision Map Act
07 Ops.Cal.Atty.Gen. 801 (August 21, 2007)

On August 21, 2007, at the request of Honorable Dick Ackerman, Attorney General Edmund Brown opined that the grant of a conservation easement does not trigger the requirements of the Subdivision Map Act because it does not constitute a “subdivision” for purposes of the act. Thus, a corporation’s grant of a conservation easement under which the corporation would maintain ownership and possession of the property subject to the easement did not trigger the requirements of the act.