I bought a house with 20 acres, a defunct nursery. It also had a 100 year old house on it, the house was just a shell. At the time I bought it, the property was divisable because of the two homes. I had a better well drilled, was waiting on a permit for the septic, and had already applied for building permit. During the process, the old house caught fire, (most likely kids with matches), two months later I was denied the building permit because I no longer had two dwellings and therefore it was no longer divisable. Now, instead of putting money into the economy by building a home and selling off the properties, Im left with one larger property, and all I can do is farm it. I bought the land, I pay the taxes on it, but some idiot from the city, is "saving my farm".