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compensating farmers for giving up the market value of their land as subdivisions, while at die same time making sure that the land will continue to be used for agriculture. It is an interesting experiment, but it is expensive, and as Susannah Lessard notes, is coming after most of the damage has already been done.
WHEN arguments are put forth in this part of the country for saving farmland and stopping hideous, ill-conceived “development,” the cry of “elite-ism” and exclusiveness is sometimes raised, the implication being that people who are in favor of farming and woodlands and open space are, somehow, against people and the “right” of people to live where they want.
Author Lessard addresses this issue as well, noting: “Suburbia represents progress—in the sense of democracy as well as of growth— and it is hardly breaking new ground to say that progress has everywhere been accompanied by bitter disappointment, that it has somehow diminished the human beings it was meant to serve.”
Piedmont lawmakers and residents, read the record of one rural landscape’s destruction, and be forewarned.
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