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Final
Greenbelt Plan
To accompany the Greenbelt
legislation, the Province has finalized a Greenbelt Plan. The Greenbelt Plan's purpose is to protect environmentally
sensitive and agricultural lands, a key step in planning for growth.
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Addendum
Report PD 47-04
[PDF 236kb]
Council considered the Addendum
Report on Monday, February 7, 2005
Excerpt
of Council Minutes, December 6, 2004
[PDF 87kb]
Report PD 47-04
[PDF 144 kb]
Dated December 2, 2004
Attachments to Report PD 47-04:
Bill
135, Greenbelt Act
On October 28, 2004, Bill 125 -
proposed Greenbelt Act was given first reading in the Ontario
legislature. The legislation, if passed, would provide a framework
for a Greenbelt Plan by laying out broad objectives:
- Establishing a network of
countryside and open space areas supporting the Oak Ridges
Moraine and the Niagara Escarpment;
- Sustaining the countryside and
rural communities in the Greenbelt Area
- Preserving agricultural land as a
continuing commercial source of food and employment;
- Recognizing the critical
importance of the agriculture sector to the regional economy;
- Providing the protection needed to
maintain, restore and improve ecosystems in the Greenbelt Area;
- Promoting river connections
between the Oak Ridges Moraine and Niagara Escarpment, and lakes
in the region, including Lake Ontario;
- Providing open space and
recreational, tourism and cultural heritage opportunities to
support the social needs of a rapidly expanding and increasingly
urbanized population;
- Promoting linkages between
ecosystems and provincial parks or public lands;
- Controlling urbanization of the
lands to which the Greenbelt Plan applies;
- Ensuring transportation and other
infrastructure projects are developed in an environmentally
sensitive way; and
- Promoting sustainable resource
use.
Bill
27, Greenbelt Protection Act
On June 24, 2004, Bill 27 - Greenbelt
Protection Act was given Royal Assent. The legislation:
- Creates a greenbelt study area in
the Golden Horseshoe including the Oak Ridges Moraine, the
Niagara Escarpment, and the Niagara tender fruit lands;
- Establishes a moratorium that
would temporarily prevent new urban uses outside existing urban
boundaries on rural and agricultural lands within key portions
of the study area;
- Allows the Minister of Municipal
Affairs and Housing to stay proceedings regarding sensitive
lands within the study area; and
- Strengthens protection of the Oak
Ridges Moraine by clarifying provisions of the Oak Ridges
Moraine Conservation Act, 2001 and extending the authority of
the government to stay Ontario Municipal Board appeals on the
Oak Ridges Moraine.
The City has prepared a map showing
the Greenbelt Study Area, all zoning orders, and the Interim Control
By-law area:
The legislation specifies that all
municipal and OMB decisions or procedures on applications (whether
by means of official plans, official plan amendments, zoning
by-laws, holding by-laws, interim control by-laws or plans of
subdivision) for urban uses on lands outside designated urban
settlement areas will have no effect if made on or after December
16, 2003 (i.e. the Act will be retroactive). Further, landowners
will not be permitted to apply for planning approvals to permit
urban uses on lands outside urban settlement areas, whether through
official plans, official plan amendments or plans of subdivision.
The prohibition does not apply to consent applications
Additional information can be found by
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