Stopping Sprawl By Creating Farm Markets

12 August 2001 - 7:00am

Congress can help to contain sprawl by creating new markets for small farms in the 2002 Farm Bill.

"Farmers living on the edge of suburbia know they have a big payday coming as soon as the growing real estate market makes it out to their picturesque fields. But most farmers, never mind the citizens of America’s beautiful small towns, are not exactly thrilled. Like a growing movement of Americans, they know that the malls and parking lots marching their way will turn quiet country lanes into snarled commuter corridors, ruin the fishing with water pollution, and leave downtowns to disintegrate into danger zones."

Source: Michigan Land Use Institute, August 7, 2001
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.