Instead of taking more…

Instead of taking more farmland that we are going to need someday, eliminate people's ability to register their house as a "heritage" home and force cities to build higher density high rise building and stop the urban sprawl. In places like London Ontario where you have neighborhoods like Wortley Village, who deemed the entire neighborhood as "Heritage" so that high rise buildings can't be built is not a good solution to the housing crisis. It's easy for people in those neighborhoods to say "not in my back yard" because they have probably never even step foot on a farm and don't realize just how valuable and essential our farm land really is. Why would we want to become like China and be forced to import the majority of our food? Does anyone even consider the possibility that there will come a day when we will need to rely on the farmland that we have to feed ourselves due to some geo political nonsense going on? Forcing cities to build higher density housing is the only solution to this problem and the "Hertiage" people need to just get over it.