British Columbia's agricultural land reserve: Economic, legal and political issues. Androkovich, R. A. Land Use Policy, 30(1):365--372, January, 2013.
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High quality agricultural land is extremely scarce in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As a consequence of this scarcity and development pressure, the provincial government established a province-wide land preservation scheme – the agricultural land reserve – in 1973. The principal focus of the paper is an examination of the consequences of recent changes to the reserve's enabling legislation. One of the changes is of particular importance: the Commission which manages the reserve is now explicitly required to consider community needs within the over-arching objective of land preservation. An important question immediately presents itself: how will the Commission balance the two conflicting objectives? An outline for a land evaluation and site assessment (LESA) framework is presented which – if adopted – would ensure that the Commission's land use decisions reflected a range of concerns; including, the agricultural value of the parcels of land being considered for removal from the reserve, the likely impact of the removal of a parcel on the agricultural value of nearby parcels, the impact that development of a parcel removed from the reserve would have on environmental, recreational and open space amenities, the social, cultural and heritage effects stemming from the removal of a parcel, and community needs. The paper also addresses the likelihood of government support for the implementation of a LESA framework.
@article{androkovich_british_2013,
	title = {British {Columbia}'s agricultural land reserve: {Economic}, legal and political issues},
	volume = {30},
	issn = {0264-8377},
	shorttitle = {British {Columbia}'s agricultural land reserve},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837712000609},
	doi = {10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.03.026},
	abstract = {High quality agricultural land is extremely scarce in the province of British Columbia, Canada. As a consequence of this scarcity and development pressure, the provincial government established a province-wide land preservation scheme – the agricultural land reserve – in 1973. The principal focus of the paper is an examination of the consequences of recent changes to the reserve's enabling legislation. One of the changes is of particular importance: the Commission which manages the reserve is now explicitly required to consider community needs within the over-arching objective of land preservation. An important question immediately presents itself: how will the Commission balance the two conflicting objectives? An outline for a land evaluation and site assessment (LESA) framework is presented which – if adopted – would ensure that the Commission's land use decisions reflected a range of concerns; including, the agricultural value of the parcels of land being considered for removal from the reserve, the likely impact of the removal of a parcel on the agricultural value of nearby parcels, the impact that development of a parcel removed from the reserve would have on environmental, recreational and open space amenities, the social, cultural and heritage effects stemming from the removal of a parcel, and community needs. The paper also addresses the likelihood of government support for the implementation of a LESA framework.},
	number = {1},
	urldate = {2012-09-17},
	journal = {Land Use Policy},
	author = {Androkovich, Robert A.},
	month = jan,
	year = {2013},
	keywords = {Land evaluation, Land preservation, Land use planning, Site assessment, Smart growth},
	pages = {365--372},
	file = {ScienceDirect Full Text PDF:files/37027/Androkovich - 2013 - British Columbia's agricultural land reserve Econ.pdf:application/pdf}
}

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