Ontario has backed off a housing proposal that farmers say would have had a “catastrophic” affect on farmland and livestock operations.
Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister Steve Clark proposed a sequence of laws together with a invoice that may permit for extra housing to be constructed past city boundaries and in rural areas.
But farmers expressed considerations a couple of proposed transfer to permit as much as three new heaps on parcels of farmland, saying it will hamper progress of livestock farming, fragment the agricultural land base, and threat inflating farmland costs, shutting out potential new farmers.
More than a dozen teams together with the National Farmers Union — Ontario, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, the Beef Farmers of Ontario and the Dairy Farmers of Ontario issued a joint letter urging the federal government to desert the proposal.
Clark has now advised farmers in a letter that he has heard their considerations, and the federal government is not going to be transferring ahead on the lot severance proposal.
The authorities initially recommended the severances as a approach to help multigenerational farm households, however Clark says he’s now extending the general public remark interval for the opposite laws, to offer him extra time to think about other ways to do this.
