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Canada: Small farms can have a place in urban neighbourhoods

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A city bylaw in Prince George restricts the space that can be subdivided for agriculture

By James Steidle
Prince George Citizen
Sept 17, 2024

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One way to increase our local food security is make it easier to subdivide farmland and get more smaller vegetable farms happening.

Good luck with that.

In the City of Prince George there is a bylaw that only allows a minimum of 15 hectares of AF-zoned (agriculture and forestry) land to be subdivided. That’s around 37 acres.

So say someone has 10 acres of prime farmland zoned Agriculture/Forestry (AF) and they want to parcel off one acre to a small-market vegetable farmer. Not if it’s zoned AF.

First of all it would have to be rezoned to one of the rural residential zones, the AR1, AR2 or AR4 zones. Unfortunately the smallest lot size any of these zones allows is a single hectare in the AR4 zone, or 2.41 acres.

So you can’t even create a single acre farm out of a big chunk of agricultural land.

But let’s say the city allowed one-acre farm parcel subdivisions.

Even if you had an AR designation that allowed that, all of these zones are apparently designed to be developed into housing, and they carry the financial rezoning burden you would expect the city to squeeze out of a developer: $50 for every 100 square meters to be rezoned plus $2,400 in other fees.

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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-small-farms-can-have-a-place-in-urban-neighbourhoods/


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