Mega-density development versus prime farmland
This blog about saving the Garden City Lands, Richmond, BC, explores the issue in depth. The Garden City Lands Coalition site introduces the issue.
Earlier in 2009, the Garden City Lands panel of the Agricultural Land Commission rejected the application to remove the Lands from the ALR. That brought struggle to save the Lands into another crucial period.
This is a follow-up to the previous post, “Affordable housing on the Garden City lands?” (with the question mark at the end), which the Richmond News published in its Nov. 25 issue as “Garden City key to affordable housing.” It was prompted by a Nov. 20 News article, “Free land offered: Society,” and Malcolm Brodie, [...]
Re “Free land offered: Society” (Richmond News, Nov. 20).
We’re told that Richmond’s mayor offered land to a Surrey society for affordable housing and “identified the Garden City lands as a possible location.”
The federal government is disposing of that property, and the city wants to buy it. As farmland in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), it is [...]
“Food aid grows in California’s agricultural heart,” says the heading of a Wall Street Journal article. The caption for a video clip in the article summarizes like this:
California’s Central Valley normally serves as the nation’s food basket. But amid a severe drought in the region, so many farmers have lost their jobs, they are being forced [...]
In late July 2009, I described in Community to Canada Lands I how the Garden City Lands community was making every effort to help Canada Lands Company CLC know how to provide community benefit for Richmond.
One way the community spoke was in a torrent of letters, all expressing the writers’ opinions, not form-letter repetition. The [...]
Prologue: For those who envision a community-changing future for the Garden City Lands, there is much to learn from Terra Nova, especially since Richmond recently received an award for Terra Nova Rural Park. It is located at the west end of Westminster Highway near Sturgeon Bank and shown on this Garden City Lands Coalition website [...]
