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SUBURBAN sprawl is inevitable. You can’t do anything to save farmland when speculators are running up land prices. Farming is doomed when development begins.
These are familiar statements, heard not only in Virginia’s beautiful Piedmont, but throughout the nation. Various land planning devices have been resorted to in an attempt to stem the pressure of growth on valuable farmlandland use tax relief, agricultural zoning (too often, something which is merely a low density rural housing zone), agricultural districts, easements, lease restrictions, &c. Few of these contain any real, long - range relief; at best, they’re holding actions against the bulldozers of the developers, the highwaymen, the utility corridors.
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