ALR changes upset Northerners

PRINCE GEORGE – As with every new government, the NDP has re-worked the Agricultural Land Act and it hasn’t made everyone happy, specifically around Bill 52. That bill only allows for a single residential property on ALR land.

Brian Frenkel with the District of Vanderhoof says Bill 52 doesn’t work in Northern BC.

“We’ve got people in the Nechako Valley that are trying to get secondary homes onto parcels of land they’ve owned since 1920,” explains Brian Frenkel with the District of Vanderhoof. “So their parents have deceased and they’re trying to have two family members live in separate dwellings on this property.”

He says the Nechako Valley has Class Three and Four land at best. Agricultural land in BC into seven classifications, with the first three levels representing the most fertile and the seventh being the least fertile.