whether or not once the private company had gone to private land owners and including farm owners, and bought up the leases, whether that could be enforced by the state, even the locality said, we don t want this practice. so new york is a home rule state. and basically, that means that local governments have the right to, and the jurisdiction, to say what they re going to do with land use. and they do that through zoning. and so what dryden did was they passed a law through their zoning ordinance that said that they do not allow heavy industrial uses, such as hydraulic fracturing. so, the ban is actually to preserve our community character, and we are very rural area. and this is to, really to embrace what we have as a comprehensive plan to stay as a rural area, and to preserve that, that the people there really enjoy and that s why we live there. and i want to go back to josh on this on luke to this, i m
think about, because in new jersey, it is a home rule state, so they control the local zoning and ordinances and so they had to be full partners. so we bring the mayors in, and i met with a lot of them one-on-one, and i said, i want you to have an honest conversation with the residents and i want the federal government to partner with us to buy out homes and properties that no longer should be standing, because they are so perpetually flooded over time. but i m not going the force people out. so, i want you to start having that conversation. and then, in the places that don t want to sell out, how do we protect it? we came up with nothing novel, but three ways to go about protecting it. first in the jersey shore communities, not all of the shore communities had army corps of engineer design doom systems, and there is a lot of debate