Council has been asked to make a final decision Wednesday on whether or not to seek a Normal Farm Practices Protection Board review.
The matter was discussed at city council’s environment and climate change committee in March, when Bay ward Coun. Theresa Kavanagh brought forward a request to obtain an opinion from the Normal Farm Practices Protection Board. Council has been asked to make the final decision Wednesday on whether or not to go to the independent provincial body, which rules on disputes related to agricultural operations and what constitutes a “normal farm practice” protected from municipal bylaws.
. There’s currently no requirement to proactively obtain the exemption before tree cutting, and Menard was interested in seeing that change with an onus on landowners to provide evidence and communicate with neighbours, their city councillor and staff before starting to fell trees.Article content His intention, Menard explained at the time, was to find a way to allow rural farmers to continue tree-clearing as allowed by current exemption while challenging instances of clear-cutting for short-term farming and, ultimately, future development.is immediately south of the Tewin land that was approved for inclusion in the city’s expanded urban boundary in 2021. That line dictates where urban development is permitted and could move again in the years to come.
A media contact for the Taggart side of the partnership, Jennifer Stewart, has said previously there were no plans for the future of the property in question “other than to farm the land,” but public critics and some councillors have expressed skepticism. According to a statement attributed to Michelle Taggart, vice-president of land development at Taggart Group, an agreement in principle with a local farmer for the land in question was arrived at last October and ratified in March. It was Taggart’s understanding that the crop grown on the site would be soybean or corn.
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