Well there are some good things I know of: even though Boulder, Colorado, has grown tons within its limits, it still, as far as I know, has an ordinance requiring open, green spaces around it. My great-grandparent's farm, near Boulder and still in the family, is no longer out in the country the way it was, but it is on an historic registry and being preserved, just not all of the original acreage.

Conversely, the Grand Valley (town of Grand Junction) in Western Colorado has lost almost all of its peach and cherry orchards to subdivisions and wineries.

Just east of there, in the foothills of the Rockies, near Glanwood Springs, though, my other great-grandparent's ranch, with its original homestead cabin, has been preserved as an Elk Refuge, so....maybe sometimes things balance out.