A parcel of land adjacent to my property is 300 acres. It is owned jointly by six people, one of which is a neighbor. This piece of land is beautiful, rolling, covered with oak woods, wetlands, and the headwaters of a nearby creek. The problem is that it is for sale, and I just know land developers want to swoop down and destroy it. I grew up exploring and horseback riding through it, and am somewhat attached to it. It would kill me if a developer bought that land and turned it into another chunk of beige cookie-cutter houses that seem to be popping up everywhere nowadays. Our county has a conservation district that purchases pieces of land like that for habitat restoration, but they probably wouldn’t be able to compete with the price that developers could offer the owners of the property. All they are interested in is making money, and that makes many people in this area angry. Can anything that can be done to prevent a developer from purchasing that land and destroying it?