In fact, even before regional planning was carried out on Taiwan, many low-grade fields in Tali had already been converted to residential, commercial, industrial, and other nonagricultural uses, so the town had already lost a lot of its "rustic atmosphere."
規劃中分析其原因，在台灣地區未實施區域計畫前，大里鄉有不少低等則田及旱地等大批農田已被變更為住宅、店鋪、交通及工廠等非農業使用，使大里失去不少「農業社會」的氣氛。