donk
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Excluding the American Religious Use legislation quirks, I need some advice on how to deal with a situation.
Here are the facts
1 Application to locate a church in an area designated agriculture (prime soils, close to farms etc..)
2) Provincial policy dissuades non AG uses in prime AG areas.
3) Plan says no division of land or creation of lots in an AG area except for AG purposes and a few others, churches are not included.
4) Here is the kicker, the applicant’s are Mennonites, so they pretty much “need” the church in the rural area, at a location that is central to their community because they can't travel to town.
On a professional level I can completely understand why we are going to have to say "no you can’t locate your church there", but on a personal level I am having a really hard time doing it.
What would you do? Please don’t suggest amending the Plan, it has policies related to amendments and this use does not really qualify.
Here are the facts
1 Application to locate a church in an area designated agriculture (prime soils, close to farms etc..)
2) Provincial policy dissuades non AG uses in prime AG areas.
3) Plan says no division of land or creation of lots in an AG area except for AG purposes and a few others, churches are not included.
4) Here is the kicker, the applicant’s are Mennonites, so they pretty much “need” the church in the rural area, at a location that is central to their community because they can't travel to town.
On a professional level I can completely understand why we are going to have to say "no you can’t locate your church there", but on a personal level I am having a really hard time doing it.
What would you do? Please don’t suggest amending the Plan, it has policies related to amendments and this use does not really qualify.