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Difficult days ahead developing provincial Land Use Plan

Thanks to Ian Petrie for this piece. With the estimated completion of late 2026 for this long-awaited land use plan, it will be vitally important that Islanders are involved in the process. Minister Lantz has assured us there will be robust public consultation.

“The first time a provincial land use plan is formally mentioned was back in 1973. The Report of the Royal Commission on Land Ownership and Use was the first of several commissions and reports over the years that have come to the same conclusion: a land use plan is badly needed, and Islanders won’t like what PEI will become without it. However, the idea is more like a New Year’s resolution to go to the gym and lose some weight. We believe it now, but the quicker we can let it go, the better. “

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Thanks to Chris Ortenburger for sharing this article in her Citizens’ Alliance newsletter this morning, along with these comments: “There is so much in that interview that brings up more questions for the Minister and Premier: must all land be in “production”? where is good Land Use Planning? (notice that may not be the same as Where is the Land Use Plan? ;-) where is the IRAC report on the Kings County land holdings that former Environment and former Lands and Community minister Stephen Myers set in motion? Why can’t the Land Department keep track of land? Why have IRAC in charge of this when her government has announced it is set to break up IRAC and there will certainly be a lot of transition? And things not addressed here: What about non-profit land protection organizations like Island Nature Trust? (this has been addressed elsewhere with a wave of the hand, but it would be good if the minister recognised this clearly) Why are agriculture giants not addressed, but non-profits? How easy will it be to work around this law? Have they thought that far in the future? This also feels like a use of a lot of government legislative writing time that could be spent on other promised legislation

Thanks to Chris Ortenburger for sharing this article in her Citizens’ Alliance newsletter this morning, along with these comments: “There is so much in that