I applaud the Ontario…

I applaud the Ontario Government for looking after the next generation of farm landowners! By allowing 4.3.2 Permitted Uses: #5 Subordinate to the principal dwelling, up to two additional residential units may be permitted in prime agricultural areas, you are allowing families to keep the next generation on family farmland. The balance of allowing land to be severed while the majority remains agricultural will allow families who have owned the land for many years to continue to do so.
We have owned our land for over 100 years. Our generation stopped dairy farming but we rent out our land for crop farming. To continue this practice of keeping the land in the family, we will need to have land severed for our sons so that they can continue to live on the land and keep it as a farm.
Many people that own land used by the farmers no longer farm but rent their land out. If families can no longer allow the next generation to live on the land, the land will have to be sold. Developers are the ones that will be buying the land and eventually development will happen.
By allowing farmland to be severed the government is actually protecting the land for many years to come.