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development of what is
believed to be Lititz’
watershed area.
Heilman and his wife have
already started building
plans for a Joint studio in
Buena Vista, which is about
80 miles west of Colorado
Springs, and for a new
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mountain home about five
miles west of the town. “Our
back yard will be a 14,000
foot mountain,” he said.
In Colorado, he will be
within a day's drive of the
major farmlands of the
nation, where he has been
doing most of his
photography work for a
number of years now. He will
be “on location" most of the
time, but instead of spending
days and weeks getting
there, driving over
congested highways he has
come to hate, it will be more
like a day’s drive through the
mountains and prairies that
he loves.
“Just one small example,”
he smiled on a recent
drive he made from Buena
Vista to Colorado Springs,
“which is like going from
Lancaster to Philadelphia,”
he passed only 10 cars in 50
minutes.
What Heilman calls the
creeping metropolism of
Lancaster County is the fact
that, bit by bit, the county’s
farmland is being eaten up
by industrial and residential
development. It is the
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Heilman photographs activities of keeps in the woods area behind his
bees around one of the hives he plant.
demise of the farmland, he
said.
He sees two problems that
he doesn’t think Lancaster
County will be able to solve.
“I don’t feel we will be able
to save farmland because
farmers understandably
want to be able to sell their
land where they can get the
most money for it. I’m not
degrading them it’s their
right,” he added.
“Developers are more
ready to put money into
farmland than anyone else.
And in spite of some actions,
hke the Clean and Green
Law, we won’t be able to
solve this,” he said.
The only feasible solution,
he went on, will be for
communities to buy up
farmland themselves, or buy
up the development rights to
these. This is being done now
in New Jersey, but it’s in
credibly expensive, he said.
“How many towns are ready
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to put up this kind of
money?”
The other area where the
county is simply going to fail
is being able to control the
interest of industry coming
in, “because I don’t think we
want to control it,” he said.
Some think the more in
dustry that comes in, the
better, he continued. We’re
attracting more people now
because of the low unem
ployment rate in Lancaster
County. And we’re perfectly
situated from a marketing
viewpoint.
“But I think the public is
scared to shut off industrial
growth,” he went on. “We’re
making loans to businesses
to come here and spending
money to attract industry,
when I think we should be
making it tougher.”
But, he said, unless you’re
involved in planning it’s easy
to straddle the fence and say
we need new industry, but
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let’s keep the farmland.
Obviously, you can’t do both.
If the people want this
and many do, for the tax
revenue it brings in then
there isn’t much that can be
done to prevent it, he said.
Township supervisors are
supposed to reflect the
desires of the people, and if
people want more
development, then the
supervisors actually are
doing their job in this area,
he said. But again he warned
that controls are necessary.
“The demise of farmland
is eating into our ability to
produce food,” he said. “We
could live without our cities,
but not without our far
mlands,” he said.
In a more philosophical
vein, he added, “I feel that
people who are forced to live
without greenery around
them are living a very
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