Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee

WHEREAS staff were directed by motion in November 2016 to engage a professional agrologist to undertake a soils survey of the lands proposed to be designated Agricultural Resource Area on Schedule R6 contained in Document 1 to Report ACS2016-PIE-PGM-0183 (Official Plan Amendment 2016) in order to confirm or update the soils mapping for the purpose of the City’s LEAR; and WHEREAS report ACS2020-PIE-EDP-0015 (Fallowfield-Bleeks Soil Study Results) details the result of the requested soil survey; and WHEREAS the results of the study reaffirmed the agricultural capability of much of the land on Schedule R6 and the Agricultural Resource Area designation; and WHEREAS there was only one parcel of land, 2394 Dwyer Hill Road (see Document 5), that staff are recommending should be returned to a General Rural Area designation; and WHEREAS the landowners of the for the lands south of Fallowfield Road and north of Bleeks Road between Conley and Munster Roads, as identified in Document 4, continue to have questions on the LEAR scoring in this area and the subsequent designation proposed. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee recommend that Council designate land at 2394 Dwyer Hill Road as General Rural in the new Official Plan; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee recommend that Council direct staff in Planning, Infrastructure and Economic Development engage a third party professional agrologist to undertake a peer revi

THAT, pursuant to Subsections 89(3) and 83(4)(a) of the Procedure By-law, the Agriculture and Rural Affairs committee waive the Rules of Procedure to receive the verbal update from staff of the Rural Affairs Office regarding Rural Fairs at today’s meeting, and dispense with the requirement for staff to provide a separate written report on this verbal update.