Until a few years ago, housing developments were prohibited in the agricultural preservation zones that make up most of rural Clay County. During the past year, however, county officials have been ...

They are expensive for the city, bad for agriculture and offer very little benefit in return,' says agronomist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Down the two-lane roads where he built a home three decades ago, Jerry Gathof sees change coming to the quiet countryside.

CHESAPEAKE — Concerned by the growth of subdivisions in rural parts of the city with limited infrastructure, Chesapeake leaders have taken a series of actions to close a “loophole” that for decades ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tucked behind fields, farms and winding creeks, a quiet stretch of rural land could soon give way to a new conservation-style ...

When is a subdivision not a subdivision? When it's condominiums. Use to be, that bit of semantics made all the regulatory difference in the world. While developers of rural subdivisions had to worry ...

Seminole County rural boundary test looms over 136-home subdivision near Oviedo ...