The B.C. government will relax rules for farmland in the Interior and North under changes to the Agricultural Land Commission introduced in the legislature Thursday.
“The agency was created 40 years ago,” said Bill Bennett, the minister in charge of the core review that spent months reviewing the Agricultural Land Reserve. “These are probably the most significant changes that have ever been made to it.”
Bennett said he will split the agricultural land reserve into two administrative regions, including one that encompasses the Interior, Kootenay and North regions.
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Rob Shaw – Vancouver Sun – March 28, 2014.
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