Yesterday, I shared the story from John Tierney’s column about free market environmentalism
out west. In Cary, we have an example of the lunacy that leads to
non-market sprawl. Some property owners in Carpenter think they have
more rights than others.
The News and Observer reports:
Someday, Lee Phillips’ strawberry fields may be a Cary subdivision.
That does not bother Phillips, a former tobacco farmer who runs a
pick-your-own-strawberries outfit on his farm each May. “I’m going to
keep it a farm,” said Phillips, who is 50. “But when I die, my children
may want to sell it and develop it.”However, it does not sound good to his neighbors in the subdivisions that have sprouted from the farmland around him.
So, on Thursday night, the Cary Town Council will hold a public
hearing on a plan to preserve Phillips’ 2.5 acres of strawberries from
the bulldozers of development….
