The farmers have no right to force the area to remain agricultural. Their actions here are incredibly greedy as theyre lowering the bay areas housings stock which hurts everyone else who lives in the bay.
Actually, as a landowner you do have the right to add deed restrictions to your land. There are many land conservation organizations that do this type of work too.
Personally, I think they do.
> Their actions here are incredibly greedy as theyre lowering the bay areas housings stock which hurts everyone else who lives in the bay.
Maybe the Bay Area should fix its own problems instead of imposing itself where it's not wanted as a "solution"?
This is the bay area fixing its problems. There are other methods I agree it should take but this is a group of bay area residents literally solving their own problems.
By imposing itself where it's not wanted. It's like a country solving resource shortages by invading its neighbor instead of budgeting better or making its resource usage more efficient.
IMHO, they should bulldoze Atherton and build 20-story Chinese-style apartment blocks there, first.
> Im also in favor of apartment blocks in atherton for what its worth. We should do both.
Again: first bulldoze Atherton and build 20-story Chinese-style apartment blocks there, then move on to the rest of the Bay Area. When it all looks like this (https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/building-apartment-...), then maybe I'll reconsider.