Suburban sprawl, can it be stopped, can it be controlled? I see that one of the readers suggested state control over zoning.Others blaming greed, who"s greed the landowners or the developers. What is a landowner who has owned and farmed a piece of ground for 30 to 50 years supposed to do when it"s time for him to retire. Sure, he could rent his farm out to a farmer, I believe that most farmers are extremely good stewards of the land and would like to see their ground stay in ag; however the amount that they can get for ag rent will not even pay their TAXES much less provide them with any retirement income. People that wish to ZONE property ag only would be devaluing someone else"s property. A farmer fights development for decades to keep his farm, he pays high property taxs because even with ag exemptions the assessed value of his property continues to increase even if his income decreases, the land can very well be his only retirement. Does anyone have the right to tell him he can"t sell it for a high price, because it will ruin there view (of course they were the ones that complained the most of the oders,noise, and slow moving equipment). On the subject of greenspace and development rights being sold off. When a farm sells the development rights the property values continue to rise because when that property is sold a great deal of it is sold to well off individuals who can afford to and will pay more then a farmer can afford to pay for farm ground. Therefor in a great many cases when state funds (TAXES)are used to aquire farm rights, that ground becomes a play ground for the rich, it does"nt keep the ground in active farming. If anyone knows the all right answers please tell me. Lou New York
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