A special committee on Montgomery County farmland issues will tell County Council members today about mounting pressure for residential development in the 26-year-old agriculture reserve, which was envisioned as a safe haven from development.
Planning Board Chairman Royce Hanson created the 93,000-acre reserve in 1980 out of a fear that necessary farmland would lose out to housing and construction growth.
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