interesting posts..all of 'em.. since it has to do with developing land. what I hear in these posts, I see @ day. the farms are gone..the orchards are gone.. the huntin' land is gone...the peace is gone... worse yet, the heretige is gone. call it progress, call it destruction, call it greed, call it entrepeneur, call it BS..don't matter, it's due to population increase. throw a rock in the pond,the circles spread outward,not inward. As for what a man can/can't do on his property..the freedom has limits...and should. if you want elbow-room,and live in a fast growth area(ours' is the 26th fastest growing county in the nation) take advantage of the $$ that your home has increased DUE to the growth, and move. the ONLY vialble solution. the people are here, the $$s here..and everything has it's price. I've seen 2nd generation kids WAIT for the elders to pass on ,so THEY can get the big bucks.... maybe Dad wouldn't sell, but we will....and they do, all of 'em..'cuz you can't make 3 million dollars working a 400 AC farm in a LIFETIME...nor, with all the Gov't regs on chemicals/sprays,labor laws,etc,can orchards viably harvest a crop these days, and sell out. I'm 50 YO, and I've seen literally thousands of PRIME Shenandoah Valley farm land now raise houses instaed of cattle.....
the old adage(sp) still holds true.... $$ talks, BS walks.....