Where should the Township draw the line between helping farm families and rural residents create lots and protecting farmland? And for this question, we are beginning with JD.

While it is important for the township of Chatsworth to protect its agricultural roots, we also need to recognize that farm families must be able to make a living and plan for the future.

The province establishes the framework for land use plans and the township has minimum lot sizes and frontage requirements.

To help protect farmland from being divided up into multiple residential lots, except for where permitted under applicant planning policies.

However, with the cost of land and housing today, farm families may need additional housing closer to the farm as their children grow and they start their own families.

Likewise, parents may want to downsize while remaining close to their home, family, and farm operation.

There are real needs and they are not new.

JD's up next.