[4] This unique reserve contains farms that produced farm-to-table products for the local community, lessening the burden of outside pressures of cost of living.
[7] The requirement for non-EAZ to a have a large amount of lot sizes allow for confirm landowners to build dwellings within these zones.
Activist groups were hostile to EAZ practices beginning in the 1960s wanting to limit the role of general zoning on the impact of maintaining economic and racial segregation in urban cities.
Following the civil rights movement and war on poverty, activist groups went to state Supreme Courts in hopes of overturning agricultural zoning that inhibited the growth of housing projects.
It wasn't until 1978 when state Supreme Courts in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania struck down zoning in municipalities that restricted opportunities for metropolitan housing.
There was growing animosity between city planners and farmers wishing to sell their land because agricultural zoning had become a common form of land-use control.
Following the updated law, local governments across the state were to have no control over zoning, allowing for the facilitation of co-existence between farm and non-farm uses.
Oregon decided to integrate UGB into their agricultural movement, with the goal to preserve green spaces in urban areas and surrounding farmlands.