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 | New Tecumseth Farmers' Association | |
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| Start Date: |
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June 2005 |
| Funding: |
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Nottawasaga CEDC, Nominal membership fee of $10.00/member to cover costs of meeting room and incidentals. |
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Nottawasaga Futures, Town of New Tecumseth, Members of the Farming Community |
| Goals: |
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To provide information and support to the Town of New Tecumseth respecting the agricultural industry. |
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The New Tecumseth Farmers’ Association grew out of a stakeholders’ meeting held in early June 2005 in response to the Town of New Tecumseth’s Official Plan Review Issue Paper. Issues identified within this document were perceived to have a long-term negative impact upon the agricultural industry within the Town.
A subsequent membership drive resulted in a membership of over 60 members representing landholdings in excess of 17,000 acres within the municipality. An executive was elected at the first meeting of members. Over the course of the following two months a response paper to the Town’s Official Plan Review was developed and submitted to the Planning Department with copies to each member of council. The Council agreed to a one-year moratorium on the segregation of prime agricultural land from the Rural/Agricultural land designation.
Meetings with the Director of Development, New Tecumseth has resulted in initial steps to resolving the land designation issues. More meetings are planned to facilitate a “farming –friendly” solution to designating Prime Agricultural lands within the municipalities and providing the broadest allowable land uses within this designation.
The membership is reviewing the recently passed Clean Water Protection Act to determine sector impact and identifying opportunities to work with the municipality and conservation authority throughout the implementation phase.
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