Delaware Sprawl

[Duckmastor2]

Even when someone tries to do something about it, the farmers and the developers put the cabash on the whole thing....

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060410/NEWS/604100353/1006

[RonM]

That lady is either part of the problem or part of the solution... By moving herfe she became part of the problem, if she chooses to return to live in Philly she can become part of the solution. Dont ever restrict the farmers from selling their property, they have bought it and worked hard to pay for it and it is their investment to the future for them..... There are other ways to control urban sprawl, one was is not require so much farmland to build a house on .. You have to give up 4 acres of farmland to build 1 house, that doesnt make much sense to me....

[cardeer]

ORIGINAL: RonM

That lady is either part of the problem or part of the solution... By moving herfe she became part of the problem, if she chooses to return to live in Philly she can become part of the solution. Dont ever restrict the farmers from selling their property, they have bought it and worked hard to pay for it and it is their investment to the future for them..... There are other ways to control urban sprawl, one was is not require so much farmland to build a house on .. You have to give up 4 acres of farmland to build 1 house, that doesnt make much sense to me....

Over in Germany no private homes are aloud to be built in the country side.You may own farms and have barns ,but cant live in the open country side. they live in the towns and travel each day to the farms to work them.Ban building. Soon there wont be any vegetation to naturally clean up the air.No place to raise food and we will be blackmailed by other countries for everything like the oil.

[Duckmastor2]

That lady is either part of the problem or part of the solution... By moving herfe she became part of the problem, if she chooses to return to live in Philly she can become part of the solution.

I though the same thing. She moved down here to get away from Philly, where it sounds like she still works, and SHES bitching about crowding? You'd think they'd have found someone who had lived in DE all their lives for the article.

Dont ever restrict the farmers from selling their property, they have bought it and worked hard to pay for it and it is their investment to the future for them.....

I cant stand seeing farms turn into developments, but I have to agree with you here. Its not fair to tell someone who owns a farm and spent all their lives working it, that they arent free to sell to whomever they want to. I just wish there was an easy way for the State (eg; taxpayers) to come up with some sort plan to compensate farmers in such a way that they would lean towards keeping space open, instead of selling to big developers. We'll never get joe/jane taxpayer to pony up enough dough to compete with the builders offering prices per acre, but maybe there's another way,,,,

You have to give up 4 acres of farmland to build 1 house, that doesnt make much sense to me....

I think this is an attempt to drive down the price per acre developers would be willing to pay. If you can put 4 houses with a FMV (fair mkt value) of say 300k on 1 acre of land (four 1/4 acre plots) the developer could pay 4x times as much per acre to keep profit levels the same as building 1 house on four acres of land. A buddy of mine at work said that a few years back that in his neck of the woods in Cecil Co. Maryland, his local zoning board was pushing a rule through that you could only put 1 house on 20 acres of land! That'll stop sprawl. A) No Developer would touch that deal and B) even if they did, they'd never pay enough to the landowner to entice the landowner into selling. It wouldnt be worth the effort.

[AJ52]

I agree Ron,

However - Farmers should not have the right to dictate housing density that Delaware obviously cannot sustain any longer based simply on what they can sell an acre for NOW.

That's the problem - Greed the Almighty $$$ and the Hell with the Long Term Big Picture for Delaware.

BTW many of the Farmers(Born/Raised Delaware Boys)are the same people that sit on local,state boards,councils,legislature etc..etc..That are Part of the Problem.

The Habitat Rape needs to cease or slow to a snails pace.

The Small Wonder can no longer withstand the increase in "Human Density"