The living greenbelt

At the mid-point between related to achieving each Greenbelt objective: the enactment of Ontario’s Greenbelt Plan and its legislated ten-year review, this report assesses the progress of regional Support Agricultural Viability and area municipalities and the Province in implementing the The protection of the agricultural land base is one of the strongest objectives of the Greenbelt Plan. [...] The intent of this research tenets of the Plan and provides certainty for the agricultural was to develop a better understanding of the initiatives that sector to foster long-term investment in the land and helps to Greenbelt municipalities and provincial ministries have taken check further fragmentation of agricultural infrastructure. [...] Background and Purpose objectives including: (i) sustaining and The purpose of this research is to develop a better understanding of the initiatives that Greenbelt municipalities and provincial nurturing the agricultural sector; (ii) ministries have taken that go beyond protecting the land base protecting natural heritage systems; and ‘breathe life’ into the Greenbelt Plan, and to consider ways of [...] More The Province specifically, the Council is responsible for The provincial government is responsible for maintaining the providing advice with respect to monitoring the integrity of the Greenbelt through monitoring of municipal effectiveness of the Plan, proposed amendments implementation of the Plan’s land use policies, and assessing to the Plan, and on the ten-year review of the effectiveness [...] The Growing the Greenbelt initiative called upon treatment of on-farm value retention and value- MMAH staff to develop criteria for expanding the Greenbelt and added activities, to planning of transportation MMAH drew on the resources of other ministries to contribute to the criteria.