In 2016, stockholders decided the best way to ensure that community land would be protected from commercial development would be through the execution of a conservation easement with the La Porte County Conservation Trust. Under the arrangement, the PLLA (then known as Pine Lake Assembly) agreed to make no changes or improvements to 22 acres of parkland, and in return the Trust would protect it against any external threats in perpetuity, thus maintaining its natural beauty for future generations.