Well, we have a slightly different problem here, or a few of them. Friend Dave has all this going on in a nearby, restrictive town. He's hooked to the city water - but doesn't use it, or only uses a little, had to pay extra for a special meter for it. He keeps bees, chickens, an orchard, a garden, all on a couple acres (large plot for that suburban subdivision), and no one complains. Dave's a really nice guy, which helps. He pays mega-taxes due to where he is, and the rather obvious home/solar/rain collection, generally high value everything.
What's been happening in the 35 years or so since I moved here is far more insidious than what ancona describes - he and I agree on that.
But what if it's the reverse? In other words, here you are, a farmer, minding your own business, and someone builds a toney development nearby?
Versions of this have been happening over and over, killing farms and off grid types - I even had one guy complain about a shooting range I have that had been here *decades* before he bought land nearby, knowing it was there. A pig farm in a place I'd not even call a town (then or now) had to become a milk farm (far more work per dollar), then a "farm expo" that does no real farming, but has pumpkin festivals and car shows and so forth - not only did they get complaints from newcomers (you know the type - I wanna flip my house, so I'm going to get rid of you so my land value goes up), but since the toney stuff was near - their taxes went up, while their relative voter power went down. They had NO fault in all of this, other than not owning the entire county.
Even where I am, it's a bit borderline - it's getting too toney here too. I'm tolerated (and of course, everyone's backup when chips are down) as I've been here longer than anyone in the neighbourhood, do nice things for people, and am "colorful". And when the flipper who objected to my shooting range ran out of money - I bought his land for more insulation from jerks like that.
Funny thing - this started out with the entire neighborhood wanting this guy gone for various reasons, but the "toney types" couldn't raise 18 large between 5 of them (some of them after asking me how I live so poor) yet I just wrote a check...and these guys wanted to restrict how I could use that land. Well, I didn't agree to that, but of course, I only wanted it as insulation from the world, so it's nature preserve anyway. Useless for much else.
Funny old world, eh?