Wellington councillors have approved a reduction in lot sizes from 400 to 250 hectares boosting the rural community's potential to subdivide and reinvigorate the agricultural land base.
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"I am very pleased to move this," Cr Mark Griggs said.
"As I remember it was unanimously supported by councillors at the workshops we have had."
Wellington mayor Rod Buhr told councillors he thought it was a big step forward for Wellington.
"Let's hope the state government minister and departments agree to it," he said.
The recommendation now goes to state planning for its confirmation.
The news came as the council announced several measures to move the local government ahead.
Meanwhile the rural community in NSW is using social media to smash through the "sandstone curtain," as Wellington sheep farmer Andrew Martel describes the Great Dividing Range separating city slickers to the east from the rural community in the west.
Fairfax media's Julie Power says in a first, the NSW Farmers' Association is urging the rural community to rate their local politician - no matter their political stripes - on a dedicated election website, Stand Up for Farmers to reach politicians and mobilise rural communities.
With a month until the election, more than 2212 people have already rated politicians across the state.
Former television journalist and National Party MP Kevin Anderson holds Tamworth by a 6.8 per cent margin, but he's averaging a seven out of 10 rating from the nearly 400 visitors to the new site.
His fellow national Andrew Gee, who holds the seat of Orange by 27 per cent, has been rated a nine out of 10 from more than 210 users.
In Barwon, National's Kevin Humphries has got a four out of 10 from 233 users.
Premier Mike Baird has got a six out of 10 from 26 users of the site.
The association is using the twitter hashtag #standup4farmers and a Facebook page to lobby for better rural roads and infrastructure, more spending on research and funding for innovation, and cuts in duties and taxes which they argue make farming more expensive in Australia than overseas.
Politicians are now using the same hashtag to reach the rural community. The office of the Minister for Roads and National, Duncan Gay, used the hashtag to tweet his government's record on roads compared to Labor's.
NSW Farmers' CEO Matt Brand said the site was driven by research that found the rural community was afraid they were "being forgotten or taken for granted."
They worried their contribution wasn't recognised, when they managed two thirds of the state's lands and contributed $12 billion directly to GDP.
Sheep farmer Andrew Martel, who runs a 2000 acre property 40 kilometres north of Wellington NSW with his son Will, rated the deputy premier and his local member Troy Grant, who so far has averaged an eight out of 10 from nearly 60 users.
"I do think he has the interest of regional areas at heart but needs more knowledge of agriculture and its importance," said Mr Martel.
For Mr Martel, the need for more research was a major issue.
"That's the future, it is where every industry is heading," he said. "It is an easy cut to make, but in the long-term, it comes at an enormous cost."
Mr Martel, who is also on the executive of the NSW Farmers, said a big problem for the rural community was that the "sandstone curtain is getting higher" resulting in less understanding of the contribution that farming made and the issues they faced.
"If you go back 50 or 60 years, everyone in the country had relatives in the city," he said.
These days, few Sydneysiders have been across the Blue Mountains. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that employment on the land had halved in the two decades until 2012, dropping from 4.8 per cent of all persons employed to 2.5 per cent of all persons employed.
