The Greenbelt should not be touched or impacted in any way. Current farmland should not be used for large housing builds. Builders and municipalities have gotten greedy in constructing homes so close together, leaving no trees or green space.
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As someone who grew up in rural Ontario and has now moved to a city for education, I firmly believe we need to focus more on urbanization and expanding public infrastructure and densification within cities than comitting to more unsustainable (ecologically and financially) urban sprawl.
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Leave agricultural land as it is. We need to keep our food supply. Build and increase density within the city, do not spread out on high quality farmland.
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Ontario needs to retain its farmland. We are losing too much each year to urban sprawl and estate lots, and that is driving up the cost of food and creating unnecessary pollution as we transport our food from other parts of the world. STOP CARVING UP OUR FARMLAND! We all need to eat.
I don't want the provincial government to touch the Greenbelt. A country must sustain its own food supply to thrive. There's plenty of land in and around populated areas where housing can be built. Some bylaws may need adjusting to facilitate it.
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We are farmers and for the longest time the Liberal government stole our pensions buy not allowing older farmers to sell off a few lots so they could retire with the dignity and respect they have earned by providing for society.
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Re-purposing farmland for housing is not a good idea. Increased housing means increased population and at the same time reducing the means to feed that population. We need to find other ways/areas to increase housing without impacting our ability to produce our own food.
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Generally, I do not support the continued attrition of prime farmland lost to development forever, with no prospect of ever being Grade 1 farmland again.
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No, do NOT pave over farmland or any part of the Greenbelt. Where will people in those new developments and cities get there food? More imports will making us more dependent on other countries and governments.
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I am strongly against the housing plan proposal which allows farmland in Ontario to be severed to build homes. Ontario farmland must be protected - there is so little of it left. We as a society must be able to produce food for ourselves.
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Please do not build homes on excellent farmland. A growing population will need more farmland in order to be properly fed. We have lost much prime farmland in Ontario, and need to stop the bleeding. Build more dense housing, not more sprawling housing.
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To allow farmers and farmland to sever as many lots as possible. Our family farms need this legislative change to become law because our children (we have 4) want to continue working and having families on our farm, but need their own severed lots first to build homes on.
Please do not add the proposed homes to areas under agricultural use because our burgeoning population needs to be fed from within Canada and Ontario has the ability to provide food for the increased population but only if we have farmland.
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As someone who grew up in a rural agricultural setting and trying to build our house in the same area, we are in support of farmers being able to sever land to sell to family. The severance regulations are archaic and need updating.
Totally against building homes on farmland. That is prime land for food production. How can we live in these new homes if we don't produce enough food and then have to import it at exorbitant prices? Most Ontarians are already having difficulty affording food. This will exacerbate existing crises.
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Farmland in Ontario should be sacred. Putting homes on farmland forever ruins prime agricultural land. Doug Ford spent the pandemic advocating for Ontario made masks, gloves, covid testing kits, vaccines, etc…
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