Greenbelt lands returned, but advocates want all protections reinstated for Duffins Rouge agricultural preserve

Two community organizations that fought for the provincial government to return the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve (DRAP) to the Greenbelt are demanding that it reinstate all four protections that were removed from the large parcel of land.

The Ontario government reinstated protections in the Greenbelt Act and the Duffins Rouge Agricultural Preserve Act at a hearing on Nov. 30. But the protections of the Central Pickering Development Plan were not reinstated and the Agricultural Minister’s Zoning Order, which had previously protected the land, was also not returned.