{"id":211,"date":"2023-06-01T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/?p=211"},"modified":"2023-07-13T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:13:08","slug":"ford-government-cancels-clueless-plan-to-allow-housing-on-farmland-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/ford-government-cancels-clueless-plan-to-allow-housing-on-farmland-after-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford government cancels \u2018clueless\u2019 plan to allow housing on farmland after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A rare climbdown by Premier Doug Ford\u2019s Progressive Conservatives \u2014 on an ill-fated housing plan for prime agricultural land \u2014 left Housing Minister Steve Clark bruised and critics saying a government with MPPs across rural Ontario is \u201cclueless\u201d on a key farm issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farm groups had warned it would fragment farmland, make it harder for farmers to do their jobs, limit the growth of farms, drive up the price of farmland, lead to conflict between farmers and neighbours \u2014 particularly over odours and noise \u2014 and permanently take valuable land out of food production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/politics\/provincial\/2023\/05\/31\/ford-government-cancels-clueless-plan-to-allow-housing-on-farmland-after-backlash.html?source=newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=teve_184570&amp;utm_content=a06&amp;utm_email=7ECDB2631EB5A6DB7311F24D751D66D7&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=ts_nl\">Ford government cancels \u2018clueless\u2019 plan to allow housing on farmland after backlash<\/a> (Toronto Star, Wednesday, May 31, 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit: Paddy Duncan, \u00a92023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare climbdown by Premier Doug Ford\u2019s Progressive Conservatives \u2014 on an ill-fated housing plan for prime agricultural land \u2014 left Housing Minister Steve Clark bruised and critics saying a government with MPPs across rural Ontario is \u201cclueless\u201d on a key farm issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}