Across California, once-prized agriculture areas are being squeezed by rapidly growing populations and development. What can be done?
"'If this had been 500 years ago, there probably would have been a war,' joked Lodi City Manager H. Dixon Flynn. Instead, the town is trying to create a buffer zone between the two communities--setting aside 15,000 acres of open space and farmland that will be protected from development. Talks about the greenbelt have stretched on for three years, and recently Stockton slowed the process further by insisting that the issue be studied countywide."
Thanks to Laura Kranz
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