{"id":3053,"date":"2022-02-22T10:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lecollectifbolton-ouest.ca\/from-yesterday-to-today\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T15:57:49","slug":"from-yesterday-to-today","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lecollectifbolton-ouest.ca\/en\/from-yesterday-to-today\/","title":{"rendered":"From yesterday to today"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The gradual disappearance of traditional activities linked to the land (e.g. closure of the last dairy farm in Bolton-Ouest in 2015) as well as the gradual loss of landscapes typical of the region (e.g. loss of meadows and increase in wasteland) have contributed to alert several members of the community. Added to this is the fear of one day losing agricultural land still under the status of \u201cgreen zone\u201d with galloping urbanization and the sad multiplication of the disastrous destinies of other rural municipalities. This has notably motivated the municipality of Bolton-Ouest to rethink its strategic priorities (see Final Report, August 29, 2013, https:\/\/bolton-ouest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Plan-strat\u00e9gique-de- development_BO.pdf<\/a> ).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Citizen consultations allowed community members to take the pulse of the situation and to underline the urgency of working on a concerted redeployment. This is how 8 owners initially volunteered to set up a first private initiative that would combine the objectives of various stakeholders. The initiative of the Collectif de Bolton-Ouest was born from the intersection of a set of concerns of the municipality, service providers and owners:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n