Comments on: Tsawwassen residents fight for farmland http://thethunderbird.ca/2009/10/29/tsawwassen-residents-fight-for-farmland/ News, analysis and commentary on Vancouver Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:13:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sylvia Bishop http://thethunderbird.ca/2009/10/29/tsawwassen-residents-fight-for-farmland/comment-page-1/#comment-32703 Sylvia Bishop Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:00:28 +0000 http://thethunderbird.ca/?p=5503#comment-32703 You call the opposition to building on the Southlands the anti-development group. They should be more accurately called the pro-agriculture group. There is nothing wrong with building houses, they just shouldn't be built on farmland. And there is nothing wrong with farmland, it just shouldn't be used for development. At issue the rapid pace at which farmland in the lower mainland is disappearing for inappropriate use as building lots. You call the opposition to building on the Southlands the anti-development group. They should be more accurately called the pro-agriculture group. There is nothing wrong with building houses, they just shouldn’t be built on farmland. And there is nothing wrong with farmland, it just shouldn’t be used for development.

At issue the rapid pace at which farmland in the lower mainland is disappearing for inappropriate use as building lots.

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