In this wonderful world of corpo late stage capitalism, guessing the answer is not a chance. But I was wondering if anyone has ever been successful in stopping development of farm/forest land. The town im in keeps developing like crazy (for who im not sure, as there’s still a decent homeless population and empty housing but anyway). My place is in an unincorporated area, with a couple neighbors and a beautiful field/trees across the road. I worry more every year they are going to concrete wasteland it and put a fricken 10th McDonald’s right near me. Yes, im spoiled. But im guessing the only possible way to stop it would be to buy the land, or maybe get all the neighbors together to buy it? It’s probably about 20 ish acres. Like i said, im pretty sure the easier option is to move away, unfortunately.

  • Libra00@lemmy.mlEnglish
    161·
    5 days ago

    There are only 2 things that can’t be lawyered out of existence:

    1. Buy the land and refuse to sell under any circumstances, but you might get eminent domained (or your local equivalent).
    2. Blow up whatever gets built, but then you won’t be around to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

    Basically the only real answer is to be so rich you can out-buy or out-lawyer anyone else.

    • 200ok@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 days ago

      Yep. There’s an Irish pub in my town that refused to sell to condo developers. The condo is still being built, literally around and on top of it, but at least it wasn’t demolished.