Develop a strategy for ecologically sensitive management of City parks within the Agricultural Land Reserve
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Plan completed in 2022, work is underway to implement the recommendations based on funding, staff capacity and partnership opportunities.
Parkland in Surrey’s ALR: A comprehensive plan for agriculture was developed by Upland Agricultural Consulting, in consultation with key stakeholders in the City’s agriculture community. The plan will guide and inform broader agricultural planning objectives for existing and future parks in Surrey’s ALR. The plan also aligns with Metro Vancouver’s Agriculture and Healthy Food Systems and Climate 2050 Roadmap priorities.
With funding through the Local Government Climate Action Program, implementation of the plan’s recommendations are underway. This Included a pilot project to enhance ecosystem services and carbon sequestration through the restoration of a historic floodplain forest community at the City’s largest actively farmed park (Mound Farm Park). In 2024 and 2025, in collaboration with Greenway Farms, the leasee for Mound Farm Park, a field buffer was successfully implemented to enhance habitat for pollinators, songbirds and at risk plants found in the park. Surrey is also actively involved in regional processes around agricultural stewardship and conservation (e.g., Fraser Delta Agricultural Stewardship Working Group, a working group to advance conservation objectives on agricultural land in the Fraser delta.