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	<title>Richmond's Garden City Lands</title>
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	<description>Mega-density development versus prime farmland</description>
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		<title>Richmond's Garden City Lands</title>
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		<title>Welcome to the Garden City Lands!</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<title>NO housing on Garden City Lands!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow-up to the previous post, &#8220;Affordable housing on the Garden City lands?&#8221; (with the question mark at the end), which the Richmond News published in its Nov. 25 issue as &#8220;Garden City key to affordable housing.&#8221; It was prompted by a Nov. 20 News article, &#8220;Free land offered: Society,&#8221; and Malcolm Brodie, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1870&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Affordable housing on the Garden City Lands?</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/affordable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1838&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California drought and us</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/drought-and-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kewljim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Food aid grows in California&#8217;s agricultural heart,&#8221; says the heading of a Wall Street Journal article. The caption for a video clip in the article summarizes like this:
California&#8217;s Central Valley normally serves as the nation&#8217;s food basket. But amid a severe drought in the region, so many farmers have lost their jobs, they are being forced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1831&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community to Canada Lands II</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/community-clc-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1824&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terra Nova &#8211; an inspiring saga</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/terra-nova/</link>
		<comments>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/terra-nova/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kewljim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1799&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Peschisolido clarifies his support</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/joe-peschisolido/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directors of the Garden City Lands Coalition meet with Richmond’s federal MPs and provincial MLAs when the MPs/MLAs are interested. (So far that’s been one to three people representing the coalition at a time.) Until recently, we have not met with nominated MP/MLA candidates. On Thursday, however, we met with Joe Peschisolido at his request.
Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1793&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>True food security?</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kewljim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I kept laughing out loud when reading &#8220;Protecting the ALR isn&#8217;t about food security,&#8221; an op-ed column in the October 20 Vancouver Sun. It read like a parody of absurd arguments against local food security and the Agricultural Land Reserve, complete with a photo of the Garden City Lands. Then I googled and found that the writer, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1761&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks, Budget Printing, for helping</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/budget-printing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kewljim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A previous post discusses Garden City Lands MOU contingencies: Community input, the 16-page booklet that the Garden City Lands Coalition Society directors prepared for Richmond’s council and staff. It is a crucial document that could easily make the difference between success and failure, andthe directors wanted its production quality to be equally good. Ideally, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1786&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community input to council</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/input/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The directors of the Garden City Lands Coalition Society made a thorough printed submission to Richmond council on Wednesday, September 30, 2009. The purpose was to provide expert community input into the Garden City Lands MOU contingency process, the stage that the City of Richmond and other Parties are now engaged in.
The main item was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1780&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Southgate re Peschisolido</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/southgate-re-peschisolido/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kewljim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A letter under the headline &#8220;Peschisolido is wrong about Wong and the Garden City lands&#8221; appeared in the September 25 issue of the Richmond Review. The writer is Carol Southgate, a director of the Garden City Lands Coaliton Society. Carol is also a local grower with a small farm, and she is a member of the Richmond [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1770&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time limits on public hearings</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/time-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kewljim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that Richmond council is considering time limits on public hearings. Whether that&#8217;s a good idea or not, the Garden City Lands Public Hearing in March 2008 should not be used to support the idea. If that hearing is any indication, the current system is helping democracy just fine. The Richmond Review has published [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1775&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ryan Lake&#8217;s letter</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/ryan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kewljim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Lake’s “Corporate power runs political process” (Richmond News, Sept. 2) is one of the more discerning letters to the editor we’ll ever read, and it can easily be applied to the Garden City Lands issue.
It ends, “My only remaining hope is that I am wrong.” As a wise citizen who speaks out with words of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1736&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mowing &#8211; can it be good?</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/mowing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mowing is happening on the Garden City Lands again, and the Coalition has  been receiving messages from citizens who think it should stop. However, the matter is not as simple as it may seem.
Unquestionably, there are some good arguments against mowing. The following are based on advice from Michael Wolfe:

Wildlife lose habitat. For instance, endangered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1719&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eating local</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/eating-local/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eating locally is very important to a lot of supporters of conserving the Garden City Lands, which they see as the future location of a significant amount of urban agriculture and as the generator of a lot more. Try visiting the Hellman&#8217;s Eat real, eat local website. You&#8217;ll probably be glad you did.
Also, the Gardens link [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1715&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community to Canada Lands I</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/community-to-clc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Richmond News letter of July 3, 2009, and in other ways, I urged citizens to ask Canada Lands Company, the federal land disposer, to keep the Garden City lands green forever. Soon, a stream of people—exactly fifty at last count—had let the Garden City Lands Coalition know (usually via cc) that they’d acted. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1685&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate action news release</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Garden City Lands is a way for the community to take local action on some of the most important issues of our time. One of them is climate action. We can take action locally to achieve impact provincially, federally, and globally by saving our best-known carbon sink, the Lulu Island Bog. There is both functional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1679&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coalition to Canada Lands II</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/clc-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sent the following on July 16, 2009, as a Garden City Lands Coalition Society message to the president of Canada Lands Company, cc-ing the usual parties and more, as I had done a few days earlier. (That message is an earlier post in this blog.)
Dear Mark Laroche, President and CEO, Canada Lands Company:
This morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1816&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barn-raising AGM</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/barn-ag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Michael Wolfe, the minutes of the Garden City Lands Coalition Society&#8217;s 2009 annual general meeting are now available.
The minutes tell part of the story, but you really had to be there to fully appreciate it. The Barn at Terra Nova Rural Park was an inspired choice of venue (thanks, Mary Gazetas!). The participation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1689&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coalition to Canada Lands I</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/gclcs-to-clc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sent the following this morning as a Garden City Lands Coalition Society message to the president of Canada Lands Company, cc-ing the usual parties and more.
Dear Mark Laroche, President and CEO, Canada Lands Company:
You will soon receive a couriered petition from the Garden City Lands Coalition Society. The 1,962 signatories want to keep the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1672&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Springboard for action ASAP</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/springboard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Renegotiations about the future of the Garden City Lands in Richmond, B.C., are close to completion. This is a crucial period. We have urged supporters to act by contacting Canada Lands Company and other parties. The following 943 words are the best we can do to provide thorough current background. Please take five minutes to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1655&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New action steps</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/new-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 07:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richmond school trustee Carol Day recently letter to the Richmond News published,  and we’ve heard a lot of favourable comments about it. Carol wrote:
The Garden City lands are still in jeopardy as talks continue between Canada Lands Company, the Musqueam and the City of Richmond. These three parties will ultimately decide the future of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1647&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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