Real Estate/Development
Feb. 2, 2000
Save the farm
By Julie Nakashima Somewhere along the line in California's slow-growth movement, the shrill cries of "not in my backyard" have mutated into pleas to "save our farmland" and preserve open space - in essence, to maintain our way of life.
By Julie Nakashima
Somewhere along the line in California's slow-growth movement, the shrill cries of "not in my backyard" have mutated into pleas to "save our farmland" and preserve open space - in essence, to maintain our way of life.
It began in Ventura County. In 1995 the city of Ventura passed an initiative sponsored by a group called Save Our Agricultural Resources, providing in part that farmland and open space outside the city limits but within its sphere...
Somewhere along the line in California's slow-growth movement, the shrill cries of "not in my backyard" have mutated into pleas to "save our farmland" and preserve open space - in essence, to maintain our way of life.
It began in Ventura County. In 1995 the city of Ventura passed an initiative sponsored by a group called Save Our Agricultural Resources, providing in part that farmland and open space outside the city limits but within its sphere...
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