Sure there is nice farmland that grows strawberries in Richmond, south of Vancouver, but the Agricultural Land Reserve also includes a great deal of land that is rocks, hillside and trees  directly east of Vancouver. Only the bureaucrats in Victoria could imagine it ever being farmland, and the Westcoast Express and Lougheed highway pass by the area, which extends into Mission.  Plenty of room for new houses there unless you are a planner, ALR commissioner or politician who thinks that ramping up demand makes housing 'affordable'.  Newsflash - more supply makes it less expensive - whether buyers live in it or hold it empty until its old and moldy.