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cannot. Furthermore, when we have
some high quality farmland and some
poorer quality lands, why pave over
the high quality land? Why not give
the windfall profit to the farmer on the
poorer quality land? Doesn't he or she
deserve it as much, or more?
But perhaps your solution is to al-
low each farmer to sever one acre lots
for non-farm people to live on. The
problems this creates are well known:
urban people living in semi -rural
settings demanding urban services at
tremendous cost to municipalities;
urban people trying to restrict farmers
from carrying out normal agricultural
activities because it inconveniences
them; and, a rapidly growing problem
of groundwater contamination from
hundred of septic tanks.
If every farmer is permitted to
sever lots, surely the price of such lots
will fall because of abundant supply.
The reduced gain means that he or she
will be back again in a short while to
obtain more severances. Seems like a
nightmare scenario to me.
No, you should be looking for bet-
ter solutions to improve the economic
plight of farmers. To seek a "solu-
tion" through random destruction of
agricultural areas is no solution at all.
Let's work together to provide work-
able, long term answers.0
Ian Bender
St. Catharines
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