3 Farmers Want Out of Rural Centers: New Residential Zones Proposed in General Plan
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By Claudia Mel, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 15--It's a commonly held view that farm property owners, left to their own devices, would want their land to be zoned as residential so they could reap the benefits of asking for higher prices for it.
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Some small farms, faced with stagnant income and mounting expenses, are opening up their operations to nonagricultural activities just to survive.
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Farmers who provide "bed and breakfast" for wild birds could help reverse the decline in farmland species, experts say.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 21--A proposal to offset the future loss of Monterey County farmland to development in the proposed county general plan provoked heated protests Wednesday before county planning commissioners.
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By Jessica L. De Vault, Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C.  Feb. 19--A group of Hunting Country residents are exploring a number of  options to assure that their spacious, rural region is left unscathed from  high-density development.
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Ever since Colorado passed tough immigration laws last year, farmers have worried that the immigrant laborers they depend on to plant and harvest their crops will not  show up in the fields this season. So, a state legislator has proposed a novel idea: Send in the prisoners.
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By Nancy Gaarder, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 19--Nature would be treated with a gentler hand when some of the remaining rural areas of Douglas County are developed, under policies up for approval by the county.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 13--A revised federal plan to speed home and institutional building in coastal wetlands has been released for public review and comments.   The U.S.
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While environmentalists applaud some measures, farmers are concerned about financial curbs.
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JERUSALEM Israel plans to rezone land within existing settlements to allow for the construction of another 533 housing units, most of them close to Jerusalem, officials said Monday.
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By TOM BEAL, ARIZONA DAILY STAR  The city of Tucson wants to give urban neighborhoods a chance to create their own zoning rules - a tool it hopes will protect the character of residential areas as it tries to repopulate and redevelop older parts of town.
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By Tom Shaw, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 17--State lawmakers continue to propose ways of keeping money in the pockets of landowners whose property is in the so-called greenbelt program.   State Sen.
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By Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Feb. 14--Over the objections of developers and housing advocates, Monterey County supervisors Tuesday approved an interim ordinance that would delay any new major rural subdivisions until after a special election in June.
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By John Weiss, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun.
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By Denis CuffSTAFF  A conservation group announced a deal last week to buy a half- square-mile of spring-fed grasslands and oak forests north of Clayton, where county-approved growth limits scuttled plans to build housing.
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By Mike Prager, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 14--A 39-lot clustered housing development is being proposed along Newman Lake and Lakeview Road.   It is one of three large-acreage developments recently proposed across the county.