RM>> But to be fair, those who have been here for years usually paid
  >> less than $75,000 for a property where new buyers building on a
  >> new lot are often into $3 or $4 million, so they can probably
  >> afford the higher taxes more easily than some retired owner..

MP>If you want to keep an area from becoming overdeveloped, that is probably a
  >good way to do it.

If you already own here it's good because they now require you to
have a lot that is 330 feet wide and at least 2 acres to get a
building permit, so we don't end up with a new cottage every 50 feet
like they did further South in areas like Muskoka..

MP>There has been a lot of concern here in the states about how many small to
  >mid-sized "non-company" farms are being bought up for development.  The
  >number that are sold to non-farm interests is pretty staggering.

Yes, that's been a problem here for many years as well.

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