ALR no sacred cow LETTERS

Dear Editor,

Re: “Province allows 150 acres out of the ALR,” News, March 9

I agree with council members, in that they should not have been left out of the land-use discussions loop when Ecowaste did an end run around them to secure its landfill/development site in East Richmond from the province

However, I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad decision

In spite of being within the ALR, it evidently has not been farming-viable if construction waste has been piling up there for decades And who is going to remove metres of waste to make it so, when Richmond is full of underutilitized exposed prime top soil?

Sustainable local agriculture should be part of a broader sensible landuse strategy, where poor or damaged land can be repurposed (slab-floor greenhouses and food processing being two recent hot topics) and still remain under general agricultural use

Every day I pass genuinely good