Our North - SSE Policy Update Megathread

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No, but changing its status from Agricultural to something else requires the applicable council to do so.

It requires approval from the Agricultural Land Commission. A person wanting to do such a thing must source an alternate similar sized piece of land, convert it to agricultural use to the extent it fully replaces the original land. So buying 5000 hectares up in the isolated mountains with no growing range and no grazing won’t cut it.

 

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And BC real estate is a model to emulate ?

For gadget purposes? Sure thing.

 

[lenaitch]

why can't you keep farming it? I can't imagine a radar set-up that requires 4000 acres; maybe a dozen and that is generous. Isn't what they need is to sterilize it for development i.e. not agriculture but estate homes, cottages etc.

And they could work the land at night without lighting because everything will have that healthy glow.

No, but changing its status from Agricultural to something else requires the applicable council to do so.

The provincial government can do that with the stroke of a pen, with or without the municipality's consent. I imagine the federal government has at least similar authority.

 

[RangerRay]

That is the way it is in BC….

And it’s a pain in the ass for the landowner to sell, especially if it’s land that should never have been in the ALR to begin with. There’s land in the reserve that can only grow rocks unless you spend a fortune trying to get water to it, never mind getting the permits to do so legally.