OPEN SPACE AND REAL PROPERTY:
A. Land:
1. Located within an area classified pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes 278.250 and subject to regulations designed to promote the conservation of open spaces and the protection of other natural and scenic resources from unreasonable impairment;
2. Devoted exclusively to open space use; and
3. Having a greater value for another use than for open space.
B. The improvements on such land used primarily to support the open space use and not primarily to increase the value of surrounding developed property or secure an immediate monetary return.
OPEN SPACE USE: The current employment of land, the preservation of which use would conserve and enhance natural or scenic resources, protect streams and water supplies, or preserve sites designated as historic pursuant to law.
OWNER: Any person having a legal or equitable freehold estate in open space real property including a contract vendee of a land sales contract respecting such property.
POTENTIAL USE: Open space real property higher than open space use, conforming to the use for which other nearby property is used. (MC Ord. 53A §2, 1975)