Conservation
The Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Act of 2001 stipulates that any development in the moraine or nearby areas must satisfy several conditions, most prominently that each development leave a buffer zone of 30 m between it and any hydrological feature; for a kettle lake, this measure is from the edge of the lake's catchment area.
The Act specifically required that each municipality, single-tier and upper-tier, must have commenced preparations for a watershed plan before April 22, 2003 for all watersheds whose streams originate in that municipality, and that the requirements of that plan be implemented in the municipality's official plan. The scope of each plan minimally required:
- a water budget and conservation plan;
- land and water use and management strategies;
- implementation frameworks, including but not requiring plans for contained geographic areas or topically specific plans;
- an environmental monitoring plan;
- provisions requiring environmental management practices and programs (e.g. -regarding pollution, pesticide use etc.)
- criteria for evaluating the protection of water quality and quantity, hydrological features and hydrological functions.
All development within a municipality was prohibited until the completion of this planning exercise, and no development application submitted after April 23, 2007 may proceed if it fails to meet the requirements of the watershed plan, or fails to address the water budget and conservation plan.
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