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By Karen Holzmeister  CASTRO VALLEY -- Yet another former chicken ranch is in the news, facing the competing issues of preservation versus development.   Hayman Homes of Burlingame is temporarily shelving plans to subdivide 10.5 acres on Proctor Road for 22 homes.
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By Stephen Curran, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Jun. 6--Atascadero officials made a six-figure mistake at homebuilder Kelly Gearhart's expense when they calculated how much the prominent businessman owes the city in unpaid development fees.
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By Richard StewartANGLETON -- Angleton, we have a problem. Plans to build what was once hailed as a futuristic takeoff and landing facility for commercial spacecraft on the coastal prairie of Brazoria County may soon come crashing to Earth.
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By Max B. Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Jun.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 13--A request to build 24 homes on 13.27 acres on the southeast end of the Mill District in Harris Ranch got preliminary approval Monday night from the Boise Planning and Zoning Commission.   The request by Brighton Corp.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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In 28 years of raising chickens, Virgil Shockley has had his share of worries, from bird disease to pollution. But nothing prepared him for the latest concern sweeping the poultry industry: Local farms could be deemed terrorist targets by the U.S. government.
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The homebuilder looks like a good place to park some cash.
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By Sandra Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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By Terry Lee Goodrich, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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Contractors scramble for a share of federal dollars in N.Va.
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Its new branding deal proves the homebuilder's more desperate than expected.
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By Jon Ericson, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa  Sep. 10--CEDAR FALLS -- A City Council committee will revisit the issue of urban chickens Monday after a motion to make keeping chickens legal in Cedar Falls generated an uproar.
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By MATTHEW VAN DUSEN, STAFF WRITER  FRANKLIN LAKES  A proposed development on a 10-acre horse farm in the borough could contaminate nearby wells, according to an environmental consultant hired by neighbors seeking to preserve the farm.
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By Katherine Cromer Brock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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By Erika Pesantes, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Mar. 12--WEST BOYNTON -- A controversial development that offered affordable housing before Palm Beach County made it a requirement is welcoming residents onto the former site of a 42-acre bell pepper farm.
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By Susan Schrock, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 27--ARLINGTON -- Less than a year after its first attempt, the city is seeking a developer to bring new life to the former site of the dilapidated and crime-ridden High Oak Terrace Apartments in north Arlington.