Too much residential development in the Agricultural Reserve?

What follows is an excerpt from a Sun Sentinel article about the Ag Reserve. The article isn't spectacular for what it points out, but what is spectacular is how did an article about an Audubon Society issue get through to print without a quote from Drew Martin? Click title for link. Here is some from the article:

"The Palm Beach County-based Audubon Society of the Everglades has called for county Inspector General John Carey to investigate whether too many new neighborhoods and other development have been allowed on prime farmland where building limits are intended to preserve room for agriculture.
This comes as the County Commission is considering easing development rules in the 21,000-acre Agricultural Reserve area that spreads west of Boynton Beach and Delray Beach.
In addition to calling for an investigation, Audubon has called for a halt to most building in the Agricultural Reserve and a moratorium on more development approvals during the investigation.
"Residential development is seriously impeding the ability of farmers to conduct large-scale farming operations within the Ag Reserve," Paton White, president of the Audubon Society of the Everglades, wrote in his Sept. 21 letter requesting the inquiry."

We really should still be following the Eastward-Ho! plan and be directing redevelopment dollars to the already developed coastal communities.