Agricultural Land Reserve

• Plan to develop Surrey golf course for housing meets pushback

  To move forward with the plan, the Hills at Portal Golf Club would have to be removed from B.C.'s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).

  Politics

  Dec 11, 2024
  
• Richmond, B.C. investigates ‘Beijing Mansion’ club on agricultural land reserve

  According to the municipality, the property is located on an agricultural land reserve, which means whatever goods and services stem from it must be agricultural-based.

  Canada

  Jan 30, 2024
  
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• Surrey, B.C. votes to support inclusion of farmland to ALR, First Nations lay land claim

  As it stands, 89 hectares of Surrey land is used to grow more than 50 million servings of vegetables for consumption every year, according to the city.

  Economy

  Feb 15, 2023
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• Family fights to prevent development on longstanding Surrey, B.C. farm

  A block of prime agricultural land in Surrey, B.C. could go up for sale, and the family that's farmed it for 50 years is hoping to see it included in a protected reserve.

  Politics

  Jan 23, 2023
• Surrey farmers petition to protect ‘vital’ farmland from sale by federal government

  Tyler Heppell's family has been farming the 220-acre property in the Campbell Heights neighbourhood for 50 years, leasing it from the federal government. 

  Environment

  Jun 20, 2022
• B.C. amends Agricultural Land Reserve regulations to promote vertical farming

  The changes will expressly allow a process known as "vertical farming" on ALR land, which involves crops being grown in vertically-stacked layers.

  Economy

  Feb 19, 2022
• ‘It’s unbelievably frustrating’: ALR rules force Chilliwack farm to move annual Christmas event to mall

  Fantasy Farms is setting up 'Petey's Country Christmas' at Chilliwack Mall, where it will be reinvented as 'Chilliwack Country Christmas' when it opens on Dec. 1.

  News

  Nov 18, 2019
• B.C. government looking at satellite technology to monitor farms for breaking ALR rules

  In a statement, the Ministry of Agriculture told Global News the goal is "to inform ALC compliance and enforcement activities in the ALR."

  Nov 17, 2019
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• ‘Family fun is just not allowed’: B.C. farm says Halloween attractions doomed due to ALR rules

  A Fraser Valley farm says inflexible ALR rules could force them to shut down their popular seasonal attractions, including a Halloween haunted house.

  News

  Oct 7, 2019
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• A Vancouver Island farm built a brewery to follow ALR rules. They’re still being forced to close

  The Rusted Rake farm-to-table eatery will no longer be allowed to operate on ALR land, despite the owners' efforts to follow rules by opening a last-minute brewery.

  Sep 6, 2019