Farmers and Ranchers Could Solve A Lot of Our Problems

by Andy Caldwell

“Oh, the Farmer and the Cowman should be friends!” Source: Roger And Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”

For decades, Santa Barbara County has impeded the ability of landowners to achieve the highest and most productive uses of their land by way of overly wrought zoning restrictions and conditions of approval that were impossible to comply with. All of this was d…