Over 50% of Monday night’s Council agenda concerns proposed ALR exclusions within the City of Langford. While there are well over 55 letters, there are 40 unique individuals or organizations that wrote one or more submissions in opposition to one or more of the proposed ALR exclusions, including 2 unreadable submissions (possibly due to the process of scanning them in for the agenda package), and 1 submission in support of the proposed ALR exclusions (from one of the people seeking an ALR exclusion on their property). Some of those submissions were carbon copied to an email address advertised on this blog. Of the submissions CC:ed, 10 submissions do not appear to be in the agenda, so there could be an additional 10 submissions in opposition to some or all of the proposed ALR exclusions.
While ALR decisions are ultimately decided by the provincial body, the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC), local governments are part of the application process and effectively have a veto, as they can choose to simply not forward the application. The application is made through the local government which has three available courses of action: Read the rest of this entry »
