We are landowners for 32…

We are landowners for 32 years in Haldimand County and have 92 acres of zoned agricultural land.
It consists of 46 acres conservation designated wetlands, 25 acres in hay production, 20 in equine facility and personal living space.
We have been discouraged from trying to sever our farm house and build a new home along the road front in our municipality.

Therefore I agree with the proposed 3 additional lot severance.

I do not agree with the proposed 2 additional residential units per lot however. Remove that and pacify the farmers. By removing ARU's the possible exponential growth in rural communities would have less impact,
Short term rentals as a farm diversity option for us is in our future but not for full time residents.

It has been an inexcusible bias for farmers to severe surplus housing when land owners like ourselves are denied a retirement lot for sucession planning. We wish to see the proposed severance clauses to be fair to land owners too.

We aim to preserve the wildlife on the 46 acres of conservation land which is under our protection and continue in hay production which has dropped significantly over the past decade.

Having watched cash crops strip the land for 3 decades and saturate it with fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides which adversely affects water aquifers, we believe those entities need to be called to accountability NOT be protected because of pressures from their associations OFA and CFFO.

This appears to be a battle over land between farm corporations and urban developers.

RESPONSIBLE LANDOWNERS such as ourselves need to heard!

Thank you for considering my thoughts and giving me an opportunity to submit our side.