https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/surrey-city-centre-future-skyline-downtown
Having been forced to live in Cloverdale as a teenager, I would never want to live in Surrey again. However, whenever Surrey can become the biggest city in BC, then Langley & Delta will all become part of a nice urban area of well over a million people south of the Fraser River.
However, without the necessary urban infrastructure, it will just become another half-assed BC endeavor.
Even if most of the farmland can remain protected, huge farm conglomerates could eventually buy up all of the smaller farms from families that could use the extra cash. Then the farm & food conglomerates can have more leverage to do what they want with the land. Thus, the ALR should have had a provision to help keep the farms as a family business.
Urban densification can easily evolve around the farmland. The Metropolitan Vancouver Region is surrounded by mountains, forests, farmland & water. But that didn't stop Montreal & Seattle from becoming proper big urban areas.
