If those people sell, frankly the market will be healthier for it in the long run. The goal of land-use taxation was to make farmland affordable to farmers, but what it has done instead is artificially inflate property values, and encourage people to buy more land than they needed because much of it was essentially “tax free”.

In fact, I’ve heard a really troubling stories several times from different people that they were sold a peice of land that had land use taxation and their realtor never bothered to explain the program to them. In some cases, that meant that since they’d bought subdivided land that they (as the person who changed the use) immediately had to pay five years back taxes. In other cases, people have been led to believe that land-use taxation simply “came with the property”, and it was never explained that it required them to actually be farming the land. I think it’s really a matter of ethics that realtors explain this kind of thing to people who buy properties with land use, and I almost wonder it it should be required somehow.