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Looks impressive but will it happen?

That's a whole lot of warehouses. What will they fill them with? Dead pines perhaps? Maybe Richie Brothers will need the space to hold all the possessions from those of us who can no longer afford our mortgages. Maybe we'll get to store all the Olympic gold medals we'll win there? Affordable housing? Beats a cardboard box I guess.

680 hectares removed from agriculture lands? We are losing agricultural lands..I read somewhere that our shrinking agricultural lands is in crisis. This concerns me.
On the other hand, I see the need for this project, but is the market there to sustain it? Or is this just an acquisition of land for the 'one day in the future' scenario?
If this project is a "wait and see" before development, I say no. Make use of the agricultural lands. We need to be fully employing our agriculture industry.

Wow ...... for those who have google earth available, it is worth while to go to the Anchorage airport image and compare their airport related logistics/business park to this one. Almost makes Anchorage look like the poor country bumbkin.

Then, lest we get a swelled head, go to Chicago's O'hare and see what the traditional distribution centre in North America looks like.

Rail sidings immediately adjacent to the airport about 1,500 feet accross compared to our CN yard which is about 1/3 of that.

Freight buildings surrounded with hundreds of trailer, with the bigger buildings in the 500,000 to 1 million square foot range.

So this might be a rendering of an industrial "logistics" park in 2050? Wonder where we will be getting the energy from to fly then? Hybrid planes? Hydrogen powered ram jets?

That 747 kinda sorta looks like it should be parked at a museum then rather than at a freight transfer depot or maintenance hanger.

;-)

Conceptual. It's nice to have a dream.

I will believe when I see it. And not a picture of an artists concept either. How about an artists rendering of that great car lot just west of the Bon Voyage? Don't see no pink ribbons on stakes there yet.

I have a conceptual drawing of downtown Prince George 2000 which I did for a study based on City growth as projected by planners in 1974 .....

still waiting for that to become reality

;-)

"..We need to be fully employing our agriculture industry.."

Well there was nothing stopping anyone for the last 100 years from farming these lands. Does not seem like anyone is holding anyone back from employing our agriculture industry. This particular area was logged a long time ago so it was easy, if there was any interest, to start growing corn.

Looks like most of the opposition to the exclusion on the ALR website, is coming from the 5 acre parcels dwellers near that area.

That reminds me of the definition of an environmentalist. An environmentalist is one that already has their cabin on the lake.

The people that don't want the land out of the ALR already live on land that was removed from the agriculture land base. Pot calling the kettle black, heehee!

How much agriculture land is already being utilized? Not much from my perspective. What's happened with the wonderful piece of land that used to be called the Experimental Farm? Anything been grown on that land for the past 20 years? Keep it zoned agricultural though, just in case we need to grow something. Chester

ALR inside city limits makes no sense. The long term city land use was decided, from my point of view, when the city boundaries were established.

Outside the city limits, into the vast unknown of the regional district, it is another matter.

However, I would think that all other things being equal, the more intense use of land for urban commercial and residential development would mean that it should be closer to other similar activities to shorten the more frequent travel needs, while agricutltural use, which has less intense travel/transportation use should be further away from the central node.

It has not been economically viable to farm for a living for many years now. For someone to show the 'initiative' mentioned above, they would have to be able to pick up that land for a low price, and already own all of the machinery needed, and get a break on fuel, hope that market prices do not remain low, and finally, pray for good weather. All of the above is why farming should be subsidized in Canada.
metalman.

"It has not been economically viable to farm for a living for many years now." I guess you mean it is not viable around Prince George. A drive through Alta and Sask will show you many very viable farms. These farm "corporations" are making a very good living and for the most part, they do not get subsidized.