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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1972
Page
8
Local ag teacher Clifford Grube discusses fall visitors who ask to buy building lots. He questions selling land for farmers and notes his own past in Bucks County where real estate and farming clashed. He urges staying solvent through farming, not selling.
A rural township near Philadelphia shifts as farms sell to developers and rapid suburban growth follows. New residents push for sewers, schools, and police, raising taxes and reshaping the landscape while farmers face zoning limits, road hazards, and air from intensive housing and livestock facilities.
A farmer warns of changing communities as farmland is developed into suburbs. He urges involvement in planning and zoning to protect farming livelihoods, noting how open spaces appeal to buyers yet threaten rural services and merchants. A hypothetical town illustrates subdivision into half acre lots with wells and septics, changing the local landscape.
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