Statement by Dr. Robert C. Hoover, Chairman of the Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society (PALS) concerning Second Phase of Ontario Municipal Board Hearings on the Niagara Foodlands
Bibliographic record
Abstract
On February 16th 1977, the Government of Ontario informed the Niagara Regional Council that it had included an ex :cessive amount of Niagara's unique fruit, grape and vegetable producing land in future urban areas boundaries.The Government thereupon ordered the fixing of new urban areas boundar ies which would remove 3000 acres, including just under 2000 acres of prime food-producing land, from urban development.It subsequently permitted this decision to be appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board.The hearings star ting later this morning deal with appeals against the Government's decision.At stake are 63 referral areas of land totalling approximately 4500 acres.The Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society (PALS) is asking the OMB further to reduce the urban development boundaries by approximately 1900 acres in the 15 referral areas submitted by PALS.The other 48 referral areas have been submitted to the OMB by developers and land speculators.If approved for inclusion in the urban area, these -more-
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.151 | 0.058 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".