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Originally Posted by highdensitysprawl
I saw a bit of Talk Ottawa this evening.....Thompson remains to be convinced about not adding more lands and Hume against it other than allowing the 'Fernbank' lands to be allowed in the boundary in order to do comprehensive planning etc....hmm, I wonder who got to him on that one.
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Actually, Hume's position makes a lot of sense. There are a couple of pockets or islands of rural land that were not part of the OMB Fernbank decision (different owner). These plots are surrounded on 3 or 4 sides by urban-designated land and basically have no commercial value as agricultural land (though perhaps as community gardens, but that'll never happen). No one needs to have got to him other than asking him to look at the map:
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