ALC to decide fate of illegally dumped fill

Maria Rantanen

MRANTANEN@RICHMOND-NEWS COM

Two hundred truckloads of fill were dumped on a Richmond farm without a permit, and now the owner wants to keep the fill and improve it in order to create a blueberry farm

City council voted 6-3 to forward the property owner ’ s application to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC), which has the final say in whether the fill can stay, despite some hesitation from council mem-

bers, given the fact there was no fill permit.

If the ALC rejects the application, the property owner will have to remove the soil

All fill applications on ALR properties need to be approved by the ALC, but only after the local municipality agrees to forward the application to the provincial agency Coun Laura Gillanders, who, in the end, voted against sending the application to the ALC, said she felt “ unease ” approving it since the owner himself brought in the fill She added she didn’t want to send a message to the community that “anything goes on farmland,” that is, if a property owner

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“I think we need to have a deterrent there needs to be a message sent that that’s not okay,” Gillanders said, adding there are “dozens” of similar cases currently under investigation

Although 1,100 cubic metres of fill was dumped on the property, at 8251 No. 5 Rd just south of Blundell Road, no fines were ever levied by the city or the ALC Coun Carol Day suggested city council ask staff to look into whether the city could impose a fine on the property owner before the application was sent to the ALC.

“Whatever they took in tipping fees, we should be charging them in a fine fair is fair,” Day said “We’ve got to send a message that you can’t get away with this.”

She added if this owner isn’t held “ accountable” there’s nothing to stop the next property owner from doing the same thing This, however, wasn’t supported by the majority of council and, instead, they voted to send it to the ALC for a decision

City council also asked staff to look into how it could better police illegal fill dumping on farmland

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