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110 <br /> "As farmers age out and are dying, "Housing development. <br /> their heirs are selling land to cash "Encroaching urban areas, This...leads to increased cost of <br /> out on its purchase value to farmland/forest land being sold to land and decreased value of <br /> develolIers. morehousing developers for multi-family homes land for agricultural purposes. <br /> complexes are being built on and multi-family developments There's a lot more money in <br /> farmland while we are losing our instead of being kept in selling the land for 5-10 acre lots <br /> resources for soil, foodshed, and than keeping it as an intact farm. <br /> farms.This will create a crisis for farm/forest <br /> None of the land I see for sale <br /> both our environment and local around me is selling as <br /> ecosystem as well as for food farmland. It's simply not worth it. <br /> production and water retention and "[D]evelopment,particularly It's subdivided into lots and <br /> filtering. We d to stop sprawling development that P <br /> g neeP encourages large(10 acre)lots. houses are built. This leads to <br /> developing every square inch of the The county development ecosystem deterioration which <br /> county! It took me 20 years of policies should encourage decreases the quality of <br /> workingtwo obs d investing to clusters of homes leaving a q Y <br /> l ang large percent of open space farmland as well. I'm in the far <br /> scrape together a down payment for rather than making it easy to northern reaches of the county. . <br /> my small little farm. It should not be develop 10 acre lots,5 acre lots. This is not isolated towards <br /> like this.There needs to be more The problems of sprawl in our <br /> county are COMPLETELY the southern more urban parts of <br /> done to save our farmland and predictable based on the the county." <br /> counteract incentives to sell to policies in place currently." <br /> developers." <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> NORTH CAROLINA <br />