Everything comes down to economics. The incentive is to sell the land to non-ag buyers,

That's what happens when you're lucky enough to land a John Ramistella on your team. He will take it upon himself to get the job done.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore

In Berkeley, the crowd was really encroaching on the place where the skiers were supposed to land. So if you're one of those skiers, it looks like you're landing in a mass of people. It had to be really scary.

So it turns out an only private-land preserve wasn't going to be able to meet legal (standards). The only thing that seems to work is a combination of public and private lands.

There was no place for an elderly person to sit down and no trees for birds to land. There's little if any public art. It's a depressing sort of sensation.