Pitt Meadows city council wants to see some significant tax changes for farmland in the province to tackle what they say is an epidemic of unused farming potential.
At the Feb. 27 council meeting, agriculture and environment project manager Michelle Baski presented the collection of three taxation proposals which arose from the city’s recently adopted Agricultural Viability Strategy.
The first proposed resolution requested that the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) call upon the provincial government to create an unfarmed land tax that would be applied to any property within the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) that is not being utilized for farming.