You can use that same argument for eliminating some random UGB. You are protecting the 10k, 50k, 100k+ seed farmers, using the argument about losing the 10, 50, 100 acre farmers market farm.

If not now, when? Do we wait for the second coming? I doubt food will matter then... Or do we wait for home prices to reach $1M? How about a homeless population number? Wait until it reaches 20,000?

So, here's what has happened north of us (and in other areas of the Country that have held onto the failing Utipia model of a UGB)...while home prices skyrocket inside the UGB, many of the farms outside of the UGB (Portland) have already taken the money and run. And guess who won? Why the farmer, or his kids, who are now rich. And, let's not forget the wealthy homeowner who now own a 5, 10, 20+ acre 'tree farm' home lot.

And guess who lost? The working class, and the poor, who can't afford to live in or around Portland...and let's not forget those who are now homeless.

If not now, when?