More Factors to Consider in Making Land—use DecisionsSTATE OF IWNOISPollution Control BoardIn my paper of 8/3/98 to the Planning and Zoning Committee on ‘TheReal L.Jorth of DeKalb County Farmland”, I focused on farmland’s criticaleconomic role in the local, state, and national economy.
By 1995 it had ballooned
to 13 counties sprawled over Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
In the U.S.
as a whole, groundwater is being used 25 faster than the
recharge rate.
Buildings get vacated, abandoned, or torn down when the
profit margin dries up or new stores come in.
Land produces more than 9O~of all our food and
fiber while also protecting our prec...
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