Interesting. Kunstler gives an interview to NPR in which he talks about the “end of surburbia as we know it” - a consistent theme with him - and says this:

Kunstler says that big cities will become more population dense at their centers and along waterfronts, but they’ll essentially contract as people will move to smaller cities and to towns. “Places that will be successful in the future are places that will have meaningful relationships with food production because we’re going to have to grow a lot more of our food locally,” he says. “The age of the 3000-mile Caesar salad is coming to an end.”

Hm.

Lancaster County is most certainly one of those places with a “meaningful relationship with food production.” You don’t have to rely on the 3,000-mile Caesar salad here; you could, if you wished, buy all of your food from local producers (though of course there would be certain items off your menu for good).

But if Kunstler is correct, Lancaster not only will continue to grow, but its pace of growth could actually accelerate as people actively seek out the situation we have here - which, of course, could drastically change that situation, could create development pressures that could undermind our “relationship with food production” and farmland in general.

In other words, those arguments we’ve been having about TNDs and the like? We’re just getting started.