Land-use measure on Tuesday’s ballot pits slow-growth advocates against developers, property rights groups.
The fight over Merced County’s Save Farmland initiative — Measure C — has gotten expensive and dirty.
The controversial initiative has created a divide in the farming community, heightened fears of a threat to private property, spawned misleading information and spread rumors that developers are bankrolling the measure’s defeat.
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