After the October 2003 fires in San Diego, Save Our Forest and Ranchlands launched the Rural Lands Initiative which would have allowed no more than one house per forty acres outside of established cities and towns. Designed to restrict suburban development, the measure was rejected by voters in March 2004, the second time in five years that environmental activists failed to win passage of initiatives designed to stave off urban sprawl in San Diego's backcountry.
Longtime San Diego activist, Rocky Neptune, claims that "The Building Industry Association and the San Diego Association of Realtors, with the aid of the Board of Supervisors, spent over $2.5 million in a campaign of lies and confusion. After the ballot measure was defeated, developers have raked in billions grading away back country acres; while Supervisors stash the cash for subdivision decisions."
In "Moneybags Promote Sobbing Farmers," veteran San Diego journalist Don Bauder argues that, "The San Diego County Farm Bureau does the talking, and real estate interests do the bankrolling."
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