Agricultural impact assessments
Learn when an agricultural impact assessment (AIA) is required and how impacts from non-agricultural development on Ontario’s agricultural system may be avoided, minimized and mitigated.
Executive summary
An agricultural impact assessment (AIA) is a study that identifies and evaluates the potential impacts of non-agricultural development on the agricultural system and recommends ways to avoid, minimize and mitigate adverse impacts.
This guidance document helps AIA requesters and reviewers (such as municipalities), professionals completing AIAs, development or infrastructure proponents, landowners and others understand how to complete an AIA. It includes best practices that can be tailored to different types of development and infrastructure applications to satisfy provincial and municipal policies, standards and outcomes.
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