Land development Photo by Mike Shelton
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"You cannot stop development, that's the first thing that you have to understand. You're not going to do anything that's going stop it. I mean, in central Ohio, in my opinion, the family farm's done. The way I look at it, I'm the last generation. I come from about six generations that have farmed the same place. And, I'm at the point, I'm no longer competitive in the land market, so I can't buy any of the land around me. Every big tract of land in Harrison Township in the last, at least, fourteen months or year and a half was either sold to a developer or a real estate agent who has come in and told the owner, 'O.K., I can guarantee you $3000 an acre if you lot it off.' " Roger Fawcett, Harrison
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