Bill 90—an Act to Protect Agricultural Land: an Assessment of Its Success in Laprairie County, Quebec
Year: 1991
Type: article
Abstract: In 1978. the Parti Quebecois controlled legislature in the Province of Quebec. It established, through Bill 90, a Commission (the CPTA) that was given power to designate urban and rural zones, preserve agricultural land, and promote the transfer of vacant land back to agricultural use. The research described in this paper examines the impact of Bill 90 in Laprairie County, Quebec, using information derived from air photographs, assessment rolls, land transaction records, and the CPTA, for the period between 1972 and 1986. The information suggests that the legislation did result in: the slowing down of the rate of conversion of agricultural land to urban use; the focusing of the development that did occur to land contiguous with designated urban zones; and the reversion of some vacant land back to agricultural use. However, the effectiveness of the legislation is related to political will. Policies that might lead to the maintenance of a higher level of Provincial self-sufficiency were part of the ethos of...
Source: Urban Geography
Authors: Evelyne Power Reid, Maurice Yeates
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2017548752