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Regulations made public by the agriculture ministry Thursday enforce the law passed last spring that prevents individual property owners from applying directly to the ALC for exclusions, subdivisions or other changes to farmland. They have to convince their local government to apply for changes on their behalf, as the new law defines only local councils, regional districts or first nations as 香蕉视频直播減ersons香蕉视频直播� to the commission.
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Changes in effect this week include 香蕉视频直播渟implifying the ALC application fee process so Agricultural Land Reserve landowners only pay the local or first nations governments their portions of the application fee, and if these governments later forward the application to the ALC, pay the ALC directly for its portion of the fee,香蕉视频直播� says a bulletin from the ministry.
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Dispensing with a two-zone system that relaxed secondary use rules outside B.C.香蕉视频直播檚 highest productivity zones, the Okanagan, Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island, was a high priority for Agriculture Minister Lana Popham. She also led the reorganization of the commission to get rid of regional panels, arguing it led to exclusions based on local economic pressure.
Regional decision-making is described in a issued Thursday by ALC chair Jennifer Dyson. It names panel members for Interior, Island, Kootenay, North, Okanagan and South Coast regions.
The panels will 香蕉视频直播渟ubject to other direction, decide inclusion, exclusion, use and subdivision, non-adhering residential use, and soil and fill use applications in each of the six administrative regions,香蕉视频直播� Dyson香蕉视频直播檚 directive states.
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