City of Pickering Official Plan- Edition 6

CITY POLICY
Land Severance
(cont’d)
(ii) permit lot creation only if there is
enough net developable area on both
the severed lot and retained lot to
accommodate the proposed buildings,
structure and accessory uses without
encroachment into key natural
heritage features or hydrologically
sensitive features and the related
minimum vegetation protection zone
as shown on Schedule V or as
identified by an approved
environmental report;
(iii) require the applicant to enter into a
site plan agreement or other agreement
to establish conditions requiring that
self sustaining vegetation be
maintained or restored in order to
ensure the long term protection of any
key natural heritage features or
hydrologically sensitive features on the
lots;
(iv) prohibit new lot creation within any
part of a minimum vegetation
protection zone of a key natural
heritage feature and/or hydrologically
sensitive feature;
(v) new estate residential subdivisions shall
not be permitted within the Oak Ridges
Moraine, and
(vi) a lot shall not be created if this would
extend or promote strip development;
(e) for lands within the Oak Ridges Moraine
Natural Core Areas, Natural Linkage Areas,
and Countryside Areas, lot creation may be
permitted under the following conditions,
where applicable:
(i) a maximum cumulative total of one
severance, from a rural lot, of a farm
retirement lot or a lot for a residence
surplus to a farming operation shall be
permitted for each rural lot;
(ii) all consents granted on or after
January 1, 1994 are included in the
calculation of the cumulative total, and
this policy applies whether the
transaction takes the form of a
conveyance, a lease for twenty-one
years or more, or a mortgage;
(iii) severances from each other of two or
more rural lots that have merged in title
shall follow the original lot lines or
original half lot lines;
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