Dear Editor:
Beware any asphalt hugger who dares to realize we’ve paved
enough of our prime farmland
– in the name of progress – and advocate a new policy!
Dear Editor:
Beware any asphalt hugger who dares to realize we’ve paved enough of our prime farmland – in the name of progress – and advocate a new policy! Assassinate his character so no one else dares jump to the greens’ side.
Why will requiring an acre of newly developed farmland that’s replaced by an acre of permanently preserved farmland cause a fragmentation problem?
Wouldn’t this 10-acre loophole cause folks to create 9.5-acre industrial parks so they can avoid paying for preservation of prime farmland instead? This certainly would cause the fragmentation you fear! Maybe a win-win situation would be a city policy added to this mitigation proposal that requires no new fringe developments in plots less than 10 acres.
Conrad Lather, Gilroy
Submitted Tuesday, Nov. 11 to ed****@****ic.com
