Dari Jongsma founded and runs a business that recycles agricultural plastics in Brooks. She voted for Measure 37 because she felt restrictive land use laws were strangling some farmers. But she has become distressed as she sees the escalating development under Measure 37.

"The planning laws were beating the tar out of the farming community. Many farmers could not live on their own land or divide it for their children," she says, "but that does not mean that someone should be able to subdivide good farmland and make a mint" and ruin farming for the whole community, she says. Dari supports Measure 49 as a way to preserve farmland and also to allow farmers to live on their property and build homes for their children if they choose.

"I have not heard one of my farm customers who is supportive of Measure 37 now," Dari says. Her business, Agri-Plas Inc., kept more than 15 million pounds of agricultural plastics out of the waste stream last year. Agri-Plas is the first recycler of its kind in the country, has won numerous awards and employs more than 60 people. "A lot of my clients will suffer from Measure 37. We serve the farm community," she says.

"Agriculture and subdivisions just don't mix," she says. "Where there is planting there is dust. If you have a dairy, there are flies. Cows break out. There is odor. All these farming issues are not conducive to a city subdivision," she says.

Dari lived in California and watched as development destroyed large amounts of agricultural activity. "They broke the dairy preserve in California. Then the development went further and further in. Pretty soon you have a dairy next to huge, expensive homes and then the homeowners try to put the diary out of business. That is why agriculture and subdivisions don't mix," she says flatly. "Measure 49 is a good way to fix the loopholes in Measure 37."