REAL FARMS DON’T SELL TICKETS

A Toronto businessman wants to develop Canada’s largest lavender attraction, which will add thousands of cars per week on secondary roads and disrupt farms in the area.

Lavender farms exist because people want to take pictures of the fields. This industrial-scale attraction will damage our local agriculture, harm the escarpment, and create a danger on our roads. And local ratepayers will be unfairly taxed due to this development.

The land is the most highly sensitive and regulated by the Niagara Escarpment Commission, whose mission is to preserve the escarpment. It is a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. We want to stop the development of this large-scale attraction, including its 3,000 sq. ft gift shop.

SAY NO TO ESCARPMENT THEME PARKS

Sign the petition today to demand that Clearview Township adopt a motion to ensure that Development Charges are properly levied on developments of this kind. Their taxes will be less than a local residence! Who will pay for road upkeep and monitoring and enforcement of the parking and the traffic?

UNCONTROLLED INSTAGRAM TOURISM

We are supportive of agritourism to generate revenue for farmers. This is different – a mega attraction that will be ten times the size of Purple Hill Lavender Farm, with a processing operation, retail store and a visitor centre. With a projected capacity of several thousand visitors per week, fields will be trampled, agriculture will be disrupted, and roads will be clogged. The developer has also purchased Terre Bleu’s branding, e-commerce, and digital infrastructure—signalling that they are keen to expand the brand and operation.

The Niagara Escarpment is a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve

The Niagara Escarpment is a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve with the oldest forest ecosystem and trees in eastern North America. Preserving the escarpment is not consistent with selling tickets to a lavender theme park with hundreds of cars lined up on the road and visitors who trample fields and disrupt agricultural practices.

REAL FARMS DON’T HAVE GIFT SHOPS

Fennario plans to plant 33 acres of lavender and renovate a 3,000 sq. ft. building to showcase lavender processing, act as a retail outlet, and build a 1,500 sq. ft. equipment building.