Growth Has a Price: Who Pays When Development Sprawls?

Aerial view of scattered residential subdivisions on former farmland outside a small Nebraska town — cost of sprawl rural land use planning

Development proposals tend to arrive one parcel at a time. So do the public decisions attached to them. A landowner wants to sell. The ground is outside town but close enough to market as a rural homesite. The developer has buyers. The road exists. The property is not in a floodplain. The tax projection looks […]

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Ag First: How Rural Land Use Policy Protects Working Ground

Aerial view of prime midwestern farmland in late summer showing rich dark soil and crop rows — agricultural land use policy rural planning

The development application is straightforward on paper. Twelve residential lots on forty acres of prime ag land, five miles outside of town. The heirs of the family that farmed it want to sell. A developer has found buyers. The parcel is accessible from a county road. No wetlands. No floodplain. Nothing obviously wrong. The planning […]

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