Amendments Required to Fully…

Amendments Required to Fully Return the Protections the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve had in 2022l
Minister Calandra, the DRAP had four layers of protection. Bill 136 only returns two layers. To keep your promise on October 16, and fully “restore the same protections to lands that they had before the 2022 amendment”, Bill 136 must be amended to incorporate these missing two layers of protection which your government also removed in 2022:
1 : ERO 019-6174 revoked the “Central Pickering Development Plan which established “a comprehensive new vision for Central Pickering: that of a sustainable urban community in Seaton integrated with a thriving agricultural community in the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve and an extensive Natural Heritage System’ The Plan has eight goals” which it sets out on pages 2 and 3.
2. ERO 019-6235 revoked Ontario Regulation 154 / 03 Minister’s Zoning Order which was a zoning regulation that limited land uses and every erection, location and use of buildings or structures on the DRAP to agriculture and conservation uses.1

It is essential that the above 2 amendments also be reinstated so as to more permanently protect the DRAP/Greenbelt lands within the City of Picering and Durham Region.