Peterborough County's…

Peterborough County's municipal plan has major flaws in it. 25 years is a long time to live with a huge mistake and no way to change it.

1) The Douro Dummer plan is based on erroneous soil data....are the other municipalities correct?
2) No severance are allowed on prime farm land....how is a family farm supposed to stay in the family?
3) Douro Dummer's settlement areas are incorrectly surrounded in prime farm land so no growth allowed
4) The growth allocated to Douro Dummer is so insignificant that the tax base will not be able to maintain the ever increasing tax burden.
5) Public input was not valid because it was done during Covid when everyone was distracted by family emergencies and media harassment scaring people from leave their homes or interacting with other people.

Since the provincial plan is allowing 3 severances on prime farmland why does the Peterborough County plan call for no severances on farms. How is a family farm expected to remain in the family if they can't sever a lot for someone who is transitioning to take over the farm? This would be a tragedy for the family.

Douro Dummer has been white washed with almost all prime agriculture, even around the towns so no severances can be made. Douro Dummer is very rocky so this allocation is incorrect. One such prime farm used to be a gravel pit. Other soil maps done by Trent University students reveal the errors in the soil allocations. Why did you not take the time to find proper soil allocations? The whole plan is based on erroneous data and as such you have wasted huge tax dollars!

Not only the family farms will be lost but the settlement areas which they have erroneously encircled with prime farm land will not be able to grow. These are death sentences for a township as with no growth the remaining residences will not be able to maintain the tax increases required to maintain the current infrastructure let alone any future increases.

I know this has already been submitted to the province but if they return it for revisions or to be redone all changes should have mandatory public input because you went through the motions of public input but this was during Covid when the government had everyone scared to death to leave their homes and interact with people. They were very distracted with family and social emergencies to pay any attention to your Plan. We are watching your politically motivated maneuvers now.

Please do the right thing and not waste more tax payer dollars on erroneous data, political maneuvers and allow the public proper input on a plan which will govern their lives for the next 25 years!