Petition updateLimit House Sizes on Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) in Richmond, B.C.Submit your feedback to the City of Richmond. Deadline is tonight.
Richmond Citizens' Association (RCA)
Feb 18, 2018
Please take a moment to submit feedback to the City of Richmond on the Farmland Housing Regulations 2018, if you haven't done so already. Deadline is 11:59 p.m. tonight (Sunday, February 18, 2018). Here are some answers from Richmond FarmWatch that may be of assistance: #1 Maximum farm home plate? OTHER. 1,000 M2. #2 Septic system within farm home plate? YES. #3 Limit house footprint? YES. #4 Increase house height? NO. #5 Reduce house size for properties 0.2 ha or larger? YES. #6 Appropriate limit for farmhouse size? OTHER. 3,200 FT2 (300 M2). #7 What should other levels of government do? Examples: - Apply the 15% foreign buyers residential tax to farmland. - Strengthen the ALR. - Stop farmland from speculation and overdevelopment. - Help new farmers get into farming. - Protect farm leasers from instability. - Discourage lander investors from buying up farms. - Step up Agricultural Land Commission enforcement. - Clarify that houses in the ALR are required to be for farm use rather than other businesses.
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