Smart growth plans in rural farmland areas are more like stupid starvation plans, chasing out farmers in favor of rich liberals who want a hobby horsie farm and to pay tripple the property taxes, which the smart growth planning boards are more than happy to take in.
New home building is to be one home on 40 acres. That's too small to farm in a meaningful way to the economy, too big for some idiot from suburbia to maintain. It also destroys family farming because the younger generation can't build a home on the farm, but instead have to go spend $300,000 to build a home near their family farm. They pass.
Pity really, the Marxist is turning MD into RI “lite” more or less an affluent suburb of Babylon on the Potomac.
It wasn't too small when tobacco was grown in Maryland. 40 acres was a big tobacco farm.