Agricultural Land Protection

This dataset provides information about how agricultural land is being protected through municipal land use planning. Each municipality is listed along with the level of agricultural land protection found within municipal land use plans. Agricultural protection is described as either exclusive zoning for agricultural land, agriculture identified as permitted use, or no planning for agriculture.

Assessment of Agricultural Protection
Municipal planning strategies and land-use by-laws were assessed to determine the level of protection being given to agricultural land in the province.
Three levels of protection have been identified through the planning document review:
1) Exclusive zoning for agricultural land meaning that agricultural land is identified and given a specific zoning with the intent of protecting agricultural land, activities and resources.
2) Agriculture identified as a permitted use in other zones (rural residential, rural resource/development,industrial etc). Many of these zones have restrictions on certain agricultural uses, such as intensive livestock operations.
3) No planning for agriculture identifies municipalities that either do not have comprehensive municipal planning strategies or do not explicitly identify agriculture or agricultural activities within their planning strategies and land use bylaws.

本数据集旨在提供关于通过市政土地利用规划保护农业用地的方式的详细信息。其中列出了每个市政区域及其土地利用规划中发现的农业用地保护级别。农业保护被描述为以下三种情况之一：针对农业用地的专属 zoning、农业用地被认定为允许使用，或未对农业进行规划。农业保护的评估

农业保护评估
市政规划策略和土地利用条例被评估，以确定该省对农业用地的保护水平。
通过规划文件的审查，已识别出三个层次的保护级别：
1) 专属 zoning 用于农业用地，意味着农业用地被识别并赋予特定的 zoning，旨在保护农业用地、活动和资源。
2) 农业用地被认定为其他 zoning（如乡村住宅、乡村资源/开发、工业等）的允许使用。许多这些 zoning 对某些农业用途有限制，例如集约化畜牧业。
3) 未对农业进行规划，指明那些没有全面市政规划策略或在其规划策略和土地利用条例中未明确识别农业或农业活动的市政区域。