No one's life or land would be worth anything if we built that much housing, so let's change the zoning to a realistic level. The county only has about 17,000 housing units now. Let's pick a broad range we can live with and use zoning to decide where the best places are for this housing. We can make a Plan. Up to 4 housing units per acre in a small growth zone of 100 acres in and around towns.
Housing units can be grouped at one end of a farm, on small lots, so most land stays open.
Or the building rights can be sold, keeping all the land in farming. Zoning now creates a glut of housing everywhere, so the first few developers get most profits from building, and farmers are left to take the hindmost. Total growth would be about 12,000 housing units. In the last 10 years the county issued building permits for 4,000 units, so this plan would last us 30 years even at the existing rate of building. Since 1,500,000 housing units are not realistic, people who oppose a 12,000-unit proposal need to say what they do support.