There are few guarantees in life.  

Having a golf course next door forever is one of those that has gone down in flames three times here in Lane County in the last five years or so that I have been keeping track.  

If the city/county planning codes permit development, it will come.

Perhaps in your lifetime, perhaps after you are gone.  But it will come.  The Urban Growth Boundary system in Oregon guarantees it.

Your history as a 'legal consultant' in Kansas City, New York, San Francisco, Chicago and Denver may not have been in the correct field to understand that.  

"Websites' puffery"  do not equal zoning codes.