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24 -- THE BRUSSELS POST, SEPTEMBER 27,, 1978
Planning threatening family farm
Some members of Huron County council
feel that rural planning, designed to protect
agricultural land from urban development,'
has gone overboard and is threatening small
family farms.
Council met Friday with Harold Flaming,
a field officer with the food division of the
provincial ministry of agriculture and food,
and- got some insight into the province's
philosophy on rural planning. Flaming
explained to council the reasoning behind
the province's rural planning decisions and
the government's desire to protect good
farmland,, in Ontario and yet still give the
agricultural community some flexibility,
Mr. Flaming said the province Wanted to
prevent farmland from being fragmented
through land severances to the point that
individual plots of land are divided up into
tiny parcels that can't support a viable farm
operation. He said small parcels; if they are
under the ownership of a farmer working a
large amount of land, can be part of a viable
tun operation but on their own they cannot
be self. sufficient farm units.
The ministry worker said the prov-icne
wanted, to keep land'units in rural farm areas
large enough to permit flexibility. He said
the province was not restricting plot sizes
arbitrarily but rather was trying to look at
each severance application on its own merit
to determine if the results of the severance
leave lots that can be farmed.. by an
individual or bought by someone wanting to
start farming.
"There's no way someone today can buy a
20 acreplot and start farming but if that lot
was 80 or 100 aces he may be 'able to," said
Flaming.
Morris township reeve Bill Elston told
council that he felt the planning practices
had resulted in many famly farms 'being
taken over by huge operations and the farm
buildings left to decay. Mr, Elston said
planners ,hzid refus ed servaeranees to
elderly farmers wanting to sell land to
another farmer and stay in the house and
retire. But he said in many cases the'
serverance was turned down and the farmer
left with the option to sell his land and move
off the farm" or lease the land and attempt to
look after the buildings himself.
The Morris reeve said in many cases the
farms were
and
by huge cash crop
operations and the farmland was put under
crop by an absentee landlord. The result, he
said, was many farms buildings abandoned
and left to decay.
Warden Gerry Ginn told council he felt
that as long as rural planning was under the
control of the ministry of housing it is going
to be a "farce". The warden said rural,
planning is done with agriculture in mind
and should be handled by the ministry of
agriculture and until it is' "We're wasting
our cotton picking time".
Mr. Ginn said planning is designed to
protect farmland from urban development
pointing out that the province has a great
deal of land of lesser quality than Huron.
County that could be used for urban
development with no threat to the province's
agricultural base. He 'said he recently drove
to Huron County from; Ottawa and "never
did see an y farmland until I got within 100
milesof Huron County."
"There's all kinds of places in the
province for this kind of development
(urban)" said Mr. Ginn.
"Everyone is moving to the country like
tommorrow is the last day they can and there
is slot of land being wasted," said Mr.
Elston,
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TOP SHOWMEN These four people were top
showmen in 4-H when a 4-H competition was
held 'at the Brussels fair on. Wednesday. From
left are: Paul Johnston of Bluevale, the, top beef
showman in the Brussels 4-H beef calf club,
Glenda Wo'od of Blyth, the top showman in the
Hall-Rice 4-H dairy- calf club, Cathy
Boneschansker, the top dairy and top showman
overall the clubs, and Sherry Marshall of RR 1,
Blyth the top beef showman over all the, clubs.
(Brussels Post Photo)
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