We have a farm in halton in…

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We have a farm in halton in greenbelt and rural NEC. We volunteer on every committee for farming . Our farm is small 46 acres with half in Forest NHS and 23 acres clear. Before this proposal our farm designation is Rural land . Then ROPA 38 proposed us to agricultural system outside of Prime agricultural Areas.
Now with this ERO 019-6813 you have had OMAFRA put us in Prime agriculture based on a LEAR study which is extremely restrictive. we now on 1 small street have 2 designations. Prime and rural land which is totally inaccurate as we all have the same soil.
you propose in this document that we can severe off 2 or 3 lots meeting certain critera which is excellent. we are the perfect location for that. We definitely would participate in that but no we can not due to being in greenbelt and NEC. If this goes through with no changes to this prime agriculture mapping that OMAFRA has come up with then my life savings goes down the drain. Their map for our property is wrong as they have made the entire area 1 soil classification. The region and municipality have always known that and never put us in as prime. Anyone who will ever want to purchase a farm will never buy this farm as it is too expensive and too small to earn enough farm income. You have in one stroke taken our life savings and destroyed our retirement plan for my family, children and grandchildren. With Halton conservation and halton region creating setbacks of 120 metres from trees and wetlands , the PC government joins in and destroys all possibilities. I went on to OMAFRA maps and it says there is no changing this designation once this goes through. If this proposal is to build more homes this is further from the truth. We can not severe lots here in greenbelt NEC lands. We can not have additional residential units like you are saying we can. You are lumping us in to farms with big parcels of land, that do not already have all these land restrictions already. You are putting my property and the others in halton that were not prime ag before this proposal straight into the hands of conservation and parkland. You are helping conservation EXPROPRIATING our land so that we can not do anything with it. This proposal reduces the value of our hard earned money between 1 and 2 million dollars. If i was prime ag and knew i could severe off 2 lots off the main road then there could be some concession but we can not build 2 extra homes for the children and grandparents. I met for an hour this morning with the senior planner for our city and we went over all the maps that are not being shown in this proposal. I am knowledgeable but all the other farm businesses in Halton have no idea what this will mean for their farm business. Please I implore you to change or omit us from OMAFRA prime ag maps. My family needs us to remain as we have always been, a rural property whose owners decided to make a small farm on it. If you continue on with this then you knowingly are expropriating my business, our land and not accomplishing additional homes.