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COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • JUNE 2018 Richmond expands farmhouse provisions by PETER MITHAM


RICHMOND – Richmond council has affirmed last year’s contentious bylaw limiting farmhouses on Agricultural Land Reserve parcels greater than a half- acre to 10,764 square feet. However, farmland


advocates didn’t consider the move a restriction so much as a doubling down on monster homes, given that council also allowed a secondary dwelling – ostensibly for farm help – of 3,229 square feet on the same lot. The moves came despite


city staff recommending limiting the primary residence to 5,382 square feet, in keeping with provincial guidelines. Those guidelines


may well become rules in the wake of a provincial consultation on revitalizing the ALR. Prior to passage of the


original bylaw last year, Richmond planners routinely saw applications for homes of 20,000, 30,000 and even 40,000 square feet. Statistics from Richmond’s planning committee indicate that just three permits have been issued since the bylaw took effect, and the average size of the proposed homes is 6,800 square feet.


The statistics demonstrate that the new bylaw is working, says Gunraj Gill, a consultant to the Richmond Farmland Owners Association, set up to raise awareness of the concerns


local farmers have regarding the bylaw. Gill isn’t a farmer himself, but his family has a long history in the industry. The real issue isn’t limiting the size of residences, but enhancing policies that encourage owners to keep land in production, he says. “What are the things we can do that will really enhance and take farming into the future?” he asks. “A lot needs to be done to protect and enhance farmland, but our group has a firm position that we don’t believe that reducing house sizes by an arbitrary number will actually protect or enhance farming into the future.” A study the landowners’ association commissioned


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indicates that the added value from production on land saved by further reductions in house size is negligible. “The net impact of that is


barely relevant,” Gill told Country Life in BC. “We really feel like we’ve reached a balanced approach.” He expects discussion to continue, however, especially as the province considers options for revitalizing the ALR following a consultation


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not something that this current government wants to hear.”


KPU hopes Popham gives Bullock a more sympathetic hearing. KPU asked him to write the foreword to its recent white paper on farmland protection. The paper aimed to challenge free market ideals in order to ensure farmland is valued for food production, and used for


this spring. While talk to date has stirred strong emotions, he believes there’s been a net benefit from the attention focused on what to do with farm properties. “One good thing that did come out of this discussion is that it really puts farming issues at the forefront,” he says. “There was a problem with the really, really big monster homes. That word keeps getting tossed around but we’ve dealt with that.”


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that purpose. “The ALC is positioned to


move to the next stage, one in which the ALR is accepted as simply being a part of who we are,” Bullock wrote in his foreword. “The minister must be bold in her recommendations to move this key legislation forward. At this juncture, simply tweaking the legislation is not an option.”


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