- An alarming report on our ALR
BY KEITH BALDREY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2010 It didn’t get nearly the kind of sustained news coverage it deserved, but the report by B.C. auditor-general John Doyle on the state of the province’s Agricult
- Surrey's aggressive ALR protection policy explained
By RANDY SHORE 12 SEP 2010 – Reader Kathie Hill had a good question about the two-for-one requirement that Surrey exercises on land taken from the ALR. Surrey Coun. Linda Hepner was kind enough to respond below.
- Audit of the Agricultural Land Commission – Office of the Auditor General (PDF)
September 2010: Audit of the Agricultural Land Commission – Office of the Auditor General
- ALC Reports / Decisions
ALC Reports on the 10 applications for exclusion from the ALR in South Langford
- Farmland freeze needed now
G.E.Mortimore April/May 2010 B.C.’s Agricultural Land Commission has a moral duty to guard and improve the food supply. So why do the commissioners shirk their duty? The law allows removal of pieces of land from the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) for we
- Former agricultural land to become subdivision in Langford
MARCH 16, 2010 A 501-unit subdivision on a 13.9 hectare parcel at 936 Flatman Ave. was given Langford council’s blessing Monday night following a low-key public hearing. To be known as McCormick Meadows, the proposal made by architect Herbert Kwan for Syd
- Frank Mitchell to ALC
Dear Mr. Bednard, I would be grateful if you could share the following with members of the Vancouver Island Panel. The specific concerns I raised before the deadline for public submissions remain. I am now writing with several queries about the proposed e
- Has the ALC gone MIA?
SEPT 10/10 Roughly half of the City of Richmond isn’t city at all —- it’s farmland. Much of it is locked in the Agricultural Land Reserve, which was established in the 1970s to protect arable land in B.C
- ALC rejects South Surrey compost facility
September 14, 2010 The Agricultural Land Commission has denied Pilot Grove Farms’ application to seek a non-farm use permit for a proposed composting plant at 12 Avenue and 176 Street in South Surrey.
- Let Them Eat Condos
Zoe Blunt June 2009 Langford’s farmers, food lovers, and political bodies are struggling with the dilemma of farmland preservation Along Bilston Creek, fat mallards flap and quack over a willow thicket and red-winged blackbirds perch on cattails to sing
- Farmland loss cause for concern
Citizens Against Urban Sprawl Society (CAUSS) is a registered, not-for-profit society comprised of people who support sustainable development and oppose projects that squander farmland or wildlife habitat.
- Farmland still needs protection
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 To understand the value of the Agricultural Land Reserve, try to imagine what British Columbia would be like if Dave Barrett had not introduced it during his brief term as premier.
- ALR News
- BC's New Agriculture Minister in a Conflict of Interest with Chair of Agricultural Land Commission
BC’s new Agriculture Minister, Ben Stewart, is the business partner of Richard Bullock, the new Chair of the Agricultural Land Commission just appointed in July, putting both men in a serious conflict of interest at a time when BC is losing farmland faste
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