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Originally Posted by whatnext
Indeed.
This is not about race, it's about municipal councils' refusal to act and protect the Agricultural Land Reserve and the provincial government having to step in to do so. That land was set aside for agricultural use, not as building sites for megamansions. Nobody is stopping these people from building 10,000 sq/ft homes in Shaughnessy, or buying up two lots in Richmond and consolidating them, they just wanted the cheap building site the agricultural designation provided. For the record I agree with misher that churches etc are the same kind of threat, even though they are zoned differently as GenWhy pointed out. It's clear those demoninations chose that land becuase it gave them a cheap, large building site.
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Those churches do serve a large community, and, in my opinion, it was probably easier to justify the change in the zoning at the time (in the 80's) because of that. Not that I agree with it, in fact, I would have opposed the changes in zoning.
Another threat to the Agricultural Land Reserve could be commercial and industrial, as we also clearly see in Richmond and Burnaby along the shores of the Fraser. I think that could also be addressed.