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"The Ontario Government's
policy on land-use planning is
chaotic at present", according to
Gordon Hill, president of the
Ontario Federation of Agricul-
ture. The F. of A. represents,95
per cent of Ontario's farmers
through its 23,500 individual
farmer-members and its 19
commodity group members, three
provincial co-operatives and
educational associations.
Mr. Hill, presenting the annual
OFA brief to the Davis Cabinet.
explained that farmers may
comply with suggested Code of
Practices for livestock operations
and yet find they are harassed or
forbidden to 'expand due to- the
sensitivities of their new
neighbours. Farmers are often-
zoned into agriculture by
municipal by-laws while in
adjacent jurisdictions councils
allow severances from farms and
subdivisions on top farmland.
Farmers see the provincial
government failing to end this
chaos of speculation and land
dealing. It appears to farmers
that the Ontario Government
places higher priority • on
environment and recreational
uses than on food production.
And, under the Niagara
Escarpment Act and the Parkway
Belt Act, the Minister has been
given such wide authority that
he may override any municipal
zoning by-laws or local
plans. There is no appeal in court
to decisions of the Minister.
Even more frightening is the
unplanned way in which Hydro is
expanding, according to Mr. Hill.
"At the moment, Hydro ,has
identified 22 study areas for
generating plants -- four of these
are in Northern Ontario and the
other 18 are in Southern Ontario,
surrounding our prime agri-
cultural land. If' all these
generating plants are built,
Souther Ontario will be ringed
with these plants, along the
shores of the Great Lakes. The
amount of land involved.in these
plants is approximately 500,000
acres, the size of Oxford County,
'and that just represents the direct
development. Industrial and
urban development will occur, in
the vicinity of each of these
plants, taking much more than
500,000 acres." he said.
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