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Originally Posted by 123c
I remember picking strawberries out towards Fall City when I was younger also, I wonder if that place is still there also  |
I haven't been to Fall City for a long time but heard it has suffered the crush of population increases along with everything else in the area. Tough to keep a berry farm when the pick'ns for condos and business offices are so ripe.
So much of this has happened that many counties added ordinances mandating that farm land can't be rezoned for residential/commercial purposes. Of course then someone agrees to buy the area a small park and typically the city agrees to change the zoning laws so that 80 acres of farm land see their last crop. IIRC, that's how the MS Redmond campus expanded from their original 80 acre tract back in the mid-80s, and continues to do so. Cash crops. Verrrrry attractive