All of a sudden I noticed these things on the roads leading into town...
LoL

Could be somebody greased the right palms and plans to move a hog farm into the neighborhood........you'll love that! I understand they stink even worse than the poultry growing operations we have around here!

Fortunately none are close enough to the castle to assault our sinus cavaties! Damn birds sure as hell taste better than they smell!

`
...it refers to the "subdivision invasion" proceeding at a varied pace in what's commonly referred to as the "second ring suburbs".

As more & more bourgeois pigs move out beyond the "first ring suburbs" - the towns which border directly on the city of Buffalo - they have begun spilling out into towns in the "second ring", whose "inner" borders are the "outer limits" of the towns directly adjacent to the city. Presumably this is to escape the congestion & development of the suburbs right around the city. The concentration of people drops off pretty sharply just 15-20 minutes outside the city, and a lot more of the land is still utilized for small-scale farms - though it's pretty much exclusively cows rather than pigs where there are animal herds.
There's a dairy farm about 5 miles away where they grow their own fodder as well which is the source of a decidedly "aromatic" air when the proprietors utilize the fertilizer supplied by their bovine charges to nourish the fields where they grow corn & some grassy plant to serve as cattle feed.

The signs seem to be a facet of the response of the town gov't. to its new inhabitants' desparaging of such fine old traditional practices. I actually had a brief conversation with a worker at the "pygmy Post Office" in Marilla prompted by her complaints that "all these yuppies moving out here" were pissing & moaning that the farms... ...well, smelled like farms !
LoL

I know that there has been a bit of a turnabout of the attitude toward development of the towns around here. Initially, the influx was welcomed as a means to increase their tax bases, but all of a sudden the realization that the people moving in in droves in recent times wanted crapola like the "mini-marts" on every other street corner & other such commercial development they'd left behind wherever they'd come from - which, keep in mind, ain't exactly all that far away... ...I mean - I'm about 18 minutes from the Southeast edge of Buffalo, and even less from the "inner" suburbs. Now there is a more scrutiny of development projects, though I still find every now and then while driving along a road I haven't travelled in a while that a cul-de-sac which looks nauseatingly like something out of a cliche image of a suburb has sprung up.
Mostly this just makes me wonder where the fuck the people living in the thing are doing for a living to make the money to buy their nauseatingly ugly "McMansions", and where the fuck did I go wrong career-wise ?

If you can't go outside of your house in the daylight and piss out on your own property without your neighbors taking notice, you've got too many fucking neighbors living too close to you.

Got it now, the war on urban sprawl. Its an issue here as well as development moves farther and farther away from the DC, Baltimore, Philly area. The changes over our lives in the area have been incredible to say the least.

Our first drive to DC back in 74/75 showed the area around Dulles Airport to be nothing but orchards, farms and horse riding places for the well heeled until you got damn near to DC itself. Not now, except for a few places where richer landowners have the spendolas to maintain themselves against the increasing property taxes and offers of the developers. Multiply that by many hundreds (at least) of examples and you get the picture.

Around here the invaders are retired folk or those looking for second homes from that same area mainly. Mukkafakkas want the much lower taxes we pay here, which isn't a problem. The problem is that they expect the same levels of service they get there, and can't seem to compute that you in fact DO sometimes get what you pay for!