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Lack Of Planning Hurts Today’s Agricultural Areas
Opinion by Emmett Richter discusses zoning as a remedy for growth pressure from urban spillover. It traces rural land use zoning origins to Wisconsin in 1929, notes state adoption by 1951, and highlights three main zoning classes. The piece warns that unplanned expansion risks loss of fertile farm land, rising taxes, traffic issues, and degraded country living, urging wise development toward less productive terrains to safeguard farms.
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