{"id":156030,"date":"2023-05-26T15:20:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=156030"},"modified":"2023-05-26T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:20:59","slug":"council-sends-another-message-to-ford-over-agricultural-land-redevelopment-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/council-sends-another-message-to-ford-over-agricultural-land-redevelopment-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Council sends another message to Ford over agricultural land redevelopment plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Edward County Council voted this week to send another message to the Ford government on its new Provincial Planning Statement (PPS) which would allow a large number of new residential lots on prime agricultural land.<\/p>\n<p>The submissions will ask the provincial government to remove prime agricultural land as a category of consideration for residential development. It will also call for the creation of a framework for needed housing and development while ensuring the long-term success and viability of the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n<p>John Thompson, <a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/council-opposes-ford-government-moves-into-agricultural-land-redevelopment-and-official-plan\/\">returning from last council meeting<\/a>, now as President of the Prince Edward Federation of Agriculture, delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/princeedwardcounty.civicweb.net\/FileStorage\/AD55E03B51974C4EA7F03CE8A9115984-Joint%20Statement%20Bill%2097%20May%205th.pdf\">a joint statement on behalf of Ontario\u2019s farm leaders<\/a>, and spoke of the dangers that the new PPS could bring to the agricultural sector, as well as later discussing its threat to the county\u2019s water table:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-156030-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Thompson-Voicer-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Thompson-Voicer-1.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Thompson-Voicer-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Listen to the story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prince Edward County Council voted this week to send another message to the Ford government on its new Provincial Planning Statement (PPS) which would allow a large number of new residential lots on prime agricultural land. The submissions will ask the provincial government to remove prime agricultural land as a category of consideration for residential&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":150510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21655,225],"tags":[579,18223,13836,15643,20551,480,25969,25965,25968,14241,16733,26386,25967,25966,26387],"radio":[13055],"origine":[267,269,13050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156347,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156030\/revisions\/156347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156030"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=156030"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=156030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}