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Reminder: The Garden City Lands Coalition is a
community of people who want the Garden City lands, Richmond, BC, to
remain green in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR)
for agricultural, ecological and park uses.
- Read the
Richmond's Garden City Lands blog. Read
about the evolving kinds of action that are most useful. For
example, there are increasing efforts to get Canada Lands Company to
act more in keeping with its mandate. It's focus on huge profit at
the expense of community value is increasingly being identified as a
problem that must be resolved.
- Tell your family and friends about the issue.
Let everyone know what is going on¡Xand why it is so important.
- Write the newspapers to voice your opinion.
- Sign the
petition to save the Lands. It has already been provided to the
Agricultural Land Commission and the federal government, with good
results. Since the uses are ongoing, signing is still effective.
With a few more signatures, the total of online
signatures and on-paper signatures will add up to over 2,000.
- Become a
member of the Garden City Lands Coalition Society.
- Read Save
Garden City,
which was the Coalition's response to the ALR-exclusion application.
- Turn your vehicle into a rolling billboard.
Build awareness! You can see through and around, so visibility is
not noticeably impaired. The most popular sizes are 11" and 22".
Installation included. Easy to remove. Minimum donation: $20. You
can also obtain a smaller Save Garden City bumper sticker free when
you
become a member of
the Garden City Lands Coalition Society.
To obtain signs, contact Carol Day, CAT Signs and Graphics,
(604) 240-1986,
carol@catsigns.ca.
The Garden City Lands Coalition Society¡¦s funds are
currently adequate, including a small reserve for the unforeseeable
expenses that inevitably arise. That is a result of donations,
fundraising, membership fees, and especially the many hours of work that
have been contributed as a public service. The reason a continuous
inflow of funds is still important is to maintain this desirable
position, enabling quick action even when it entails costs.
It is likely that the society will be needed for
several years for purposes specific to the Garden City Lands. After
that, the society may choose to focus on other issues of farmland
protection and food security in the Garden City (Richmond), and the
constitution already allows for that. If the membership decides to
dissolve the society instead, the directors¡¦ intent is that any
remaining funds would first be passed on to societies with similar
purposes.
¡§You have no doubt read
all that has appeared in the newspapers about town planning,
etc., etc., and the necessity of retaining open spaces for
parks, etc., now that they are available. It would be a pity to
let it fall into private hands, and I hope to hear some day that
Richmond has secured it.¡¨
¡XMajor J.S. Matthews, legendary first
archivist of the City of Vancouver, re the Garden City Lands,
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