On Monday, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark told the Ontario Federation of Agriculture in a letter that he 'clearly heard the concerns' and promised 'to look at alternatives' to the changes he'd proposed.
and said it would create more homes in both urban and rural communities.
Reusser says farmers are concerned that putting more homes on and adjacent to farms would lead to conflict with new non-farming residents over the odour, dust and noise that comes with raising livestock or growing crops."Agriculture works better when it is somewhat distanced from people, especially people who are from an urban setting originally and who are not used to those things," Reusser said in an interview on his farm.
Steve Clark, Ontario's Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing speaks in the Legislature on May 18, 2023. People in the agriculture sector say the trouble with the policy as proposed is there's no way to ensure such homes stay in the farming family. They also say it would have the ripple effects of pushing up the market value of farmland, enticing more farmers to sell off housing lots to profit and shrinking the amount of land available for agriculture.
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