The Pickering Planning & Development Department invites you to review and comment on the Natural Environment & Countryside Policy Study Background Review (the Policy Review), prepared by consultants Macaulay Shiomi Howson Ltd. and Natural Resource Solutions Inc., as part of the Environment & Countryside Conformity Amendment Project of the City of Pickering Official Plan Review Program.

The consultants and City staff will provide an overview of the themes of the Policy Review to inform you and seek your comments as input to the preparation of a draft official plan amendment to update City-wide natural environment and countryside policies in the Official Plan.

In addition, Planning & Development Committee recently considered the Policy Review and Report PD 06-11, a Status Update for the Environment & Countryside Conformity Amendment, at its meeting held March 7, 2011.

The Policy Review and Report PD 06-11 can be accessed at:

• the website at cityofpickering.com, then go to Planning & Development, Official Plan Review, Environment & Countryside; or,

• by contacting Steve Gaunt at sgaunt@cityofpickering.com or at 905.420.4660, extension 2033, or by mail at Steve Gaunt, Principal Planner – Policy, Planning & Development Department, City of Pickering, Pickering Civic Complex, One The Esplanade, Pickering, ON L1V 6K7.

To receive further notices about this project, please contact Steve Gaunt.