this proposal while sounding…

this proposal while sounding great is going to put even more strain on our farm.

It might be a good idea to allow an additional house (or 2) on the property, we are currently looking into doing this for housing for foreign workers, as we cant get any farm help, and everyone who applies wants us to provide a house to do so. however, the severing will cause all kinds of problems. As it is, we have bought all the land that comes available directly beside our farm, however, when we built our last barn, we had to get special permissions to build it closer to a neighboring house than the regulations permit, having a neighbor sell out to a company building houses in a small subdivision (which was recently done just 2 blocks away) would cause even more problems for us trying to build another building.

The only way I see the subdivision working out (even partially) is if there is a special clause that stops the buyers/renters from being able to complain about farming going on (manure being spread, trucks driving back and forth with feed etc.) and that only addresses one of the 3 problems (complaints from new residents, setback requirements being more difficult, and loss of agricultural land)

If the Federal or Provincial government was to guarantee they would fund decent public transportation (busses multiple times per hour for example) along the roads that are allowed subdivisions (probably close to existing big cities) this might be considered by some as Okay, as it would allow employees to get to and from work without their own vehicles (something we are seeing more and more prospective employees not have). this would make the future system look much more like a lot of areas in Europe.

overall the government needs to put more restrictions on building out into farmland, and instead building up the core of cities, densification, not sprawl.