[All] Letter to MP McMeekin

[Louisette Lanteigne]

This is Sample Letter. Please personalize to assist Sustainable Brant to securing a Grand River Watershed Greenbelt. 
Send to Ted by email, fax or snail mail:17th Floor 777 Bay Street
Toronto M5G 2E5
tmcmeekin.mpp at liberal.ola.org
                    
Fax: 416-585-6470
Lulu ________________________________________________________________

Dear Minister McMeekin, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing,I am deeply concerned about the leapfrog development pressure in Brant County. We want to grow the Greenbelt to include a Grand River Greenbelt, which would protect farmland, natural areas and our drinking water. A greenbelt would promote healthy communities by preventing urban sprawl. During the review of the Ontario Greenbelt Plan, I ask the Ontario Government to take this opportunity to protect the Grand River watershed, farmland and natural areas for present and future generations.I urge you to work to:   
   - Keep foodland in local farmers’ hands. Developers, landbankers and off-shore investors “leapfrog” over the Hamilton boundary of the Ontario Greenbelt and have been buying up precious farmland in Brant County. Stop the landgrab of our local foodland.
   - Freeze urban expansion. Stop sprawl on our precious local foodland. Let cities grow up, not out,
   - Grow the Ontario Greenbelt to protect our precious foodland, natural areas and water resources.
   - Protect prime farmland Classes 1-3 throughout Brant County.
   - Create a Grand River Watershed Greenbelt.
   - Protect the Paris-Galt Moraine which is a significant ground water recharge area.
   - Legislate an end to landbanking practices in Ontario. Saskatchewan has put a moratorium on the purchase of farmland by non-family trusts (with more than 10 beneficiaries) and pension plans.
   - Grow the Greenbelt to ensure the connectivity in Brant County's agricultural system, natural heritage and water systems along Highway 403, with abutting (protected) lands along Hwy 403 in the Ontario Greenbelt
   - Include the "protected agriculture" ribbon that was created by Provincial law in 1980. 

Yours Sincerely

 
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