I vehemently oppose the…

I vehemently oppose the attacks on our farmlands and greenspaces in the name of 'building more housing''. For one thing, the only homes that would be built in such areas would be large, expansive and expensive mini-mansions, which would require obscenely expensive public tax investments to install water, sewer and power services, while doing nothing to solve the problem of housing affordability. For another, there is NO NEED to attack our environment to make room for more housing. Municipal long term plans effectively show how our communities can grow without crossing our countryside lines. Beyond all the lies and misrepresentation that this is about housing rather than about satisfying the endless and vocacious appetites of developers, it borders on absolute insanity to pave over some of the best, richest, most productive farmland in the world, farmland we are going to need to feed us and our future generations as climate change and the need to stop the emission of fossil fuels results in far less transportation of foods from other nations, even other continents. A government's role is to safeguard our Commons, to protect the population from the depredations of toxic capitalism, not to act as handmaidens togreedy corporate interests at the expense of everyone and everything else.