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“Renewable resources are those non-agricultural-based natural resources that support uses and activities such as forestry, water taking, fisheries, conservation, and wildlife management.” Activities related to the use of non-renewable resources are permitted in the Protected Countryside, subject to some restrictions for mineral aggregate operations, wayside pits and quarries and subject to all other applicable legislation, regulations and municipal Official Plan policies. Non-renewable resources are those non-agricultural-based natural resources that have a finite supply, including mineral aggregate resources. All legal existing uses before the Greenbelt Plan came into force are permitted as are single dwellings permitted on legal lots of record zoned prior to the Greenbelt Plan coming into force. In addition lot creation is permitted in the Protected Countryside for the permitted uses in addition to some other circumstances as described in the Plan, such as minor lot adjustment or boundary additions, provided they do not create a separate lot for a residential dwelling in specialty crop or prime agricultural areas and there is no increased fragmentation of a key natural heritage feature or key hydrologic function. Any Council decision relating to Alton will have to conform to the Greenbelt Plan and any decisions regarding a settlement boundary expansion must meet the provisions of sections 3.4.4 and 4.2 and be done at the time of the municipality’s conformity exercise which is currently underway and anticipated to be completed by the Caledon Planning Department in June 2009. The village study would have to be essentially completed prior to this time in order to meet the Town’s conformity schedule and the provisions of the Greenbelt Plan. 2.1.3 Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe The Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe was approved by Cabinet to take effect on June 16, 2006. The Growth Plan is a provincially approved plan as referred to in the PPS. Any Council decision related to Alton must also conform to the Growth Plan. The Growth Plan includes all of the Greenbelt Plan lands and areas beyond as defined by the Act. The Guiding Principles of the Growth Plan provide for compact, vibrant and complete communities, planned and managed growth, conservation of resources and optimization of existing infrastructure. The Growth Plan envisages increasing intensification of build-up areas with a focus on urban growth centres, intensification corridors, major transit station areas among others. All intensification areas are intended to attract a significant proportion of population and employment growth, support vibrant neighbourhoods, provide high quality public open spaces, support transit, walking and cycling, achieve higher densities than the surrounding areas and provide an appropriate transition in built form to adjacent areas. Growth is to be managed through the building of compact, pedestrian friendly, transit supportive environments, complete communities with a balance of jobs and houses and directing major growth to settlements with full municipal services and limiting growth in settlement areas - 15 -
that are serviced by other forms of water and wastewater services. It also prohibits the establishment of new settlements. The general intensification policies of the Plan provide for a minimum of 40% of all residential development occurring annually by the year 2015 and each year thereafter to be within built-up areas. The designated Greenfield area of the Region of Peel is required to achieve a minimum density target of not less than 50 residents and jobs combined overall in the Region including the three constituent municipalities of Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon. The urban growth centres identified in the Growth Plan in Peel Region include Downtown Brampton and Mississauga City Centre. There are no urban growth centres in Caledon. The Region of Peel provides for a projected 1,640,000 population and 870,000 employees in 2031 up from 1,030,000 population and 530,000 employees in 2001. This represents an increase of 37% in population and 64% in employment over 30 years. New development taking place in designated Greenfield areas will be planned, designated and zoned in a manner that contributes to creating complete communities, creates street configurations, densities and an urban form that supports walking, cycling and the early integration and sustained viability of transit services. The vacant and undeveloped lands within Alton’s settlement boundaries are considered to contribute toward intensification targets as this settlement does not have a defined built boundary (undelineated built-up areas) The applicable Growth Plan policies for Settlement Area Boundary Expansions are set out in Section 2.2.8 as follows: “2. A settlement area boundary expansion may only occur as part of a municipal comprehensive review where it has been demonstrated that – a) sufficient opportunities to accommodate forecasted growth contained in Schedule 3, through intensification and in designated greenfield areas, using the intensification target and density targets are not available: i. within the regional market area, as determined by the upper- or single tier municipality, and ii. within the applicable lower-tier municipality to accommodate the growth allocated to the municipality pursuant to this plan b) the expansion makes available sufficient lands for a time horizon not exceeding 20 years based on the analysis provided for in Policy 2.2.8.2 (a) - 16 -
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Trails, Park and Recreation Facilit
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3.2.6 Infrastructure The various pu
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3.2.8 Community Services The variou
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described as sandy silt till with c
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Formation shale, the Manitoulin For
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Potential Impacts- Water Quality: B
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The low flow estimations were calcu
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Water Balance A water balance was c
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Table 4.3.5: Stormwater Management
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4.4 Terrestrial 4.4.1 Introduction
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Floral and faunal lists have been c
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Table 4.4.4: Wetland Communities Vi
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Table 4.4.7: Bird Species Recorded
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Topography In addition to investiga
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Table 4.5.1: General Reach Characte
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Table 4.5.2: Historical Assessment
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Figure 4.5.3: Historic Channel Plan
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According to the Caledon Creek and
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iological indicators. Semi-quantita
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4.5.9 Detailed Field Work - 2005 Fi
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Table 4.5.8: Summary of 2005 Reach
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Resident Coldwater These communitie
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4.7 Benthic Macroinvertebrates 4.7.
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Table 4.7.1 Definitions of metrics
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Metrics calculated above (Table 4.7
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Existing Information and Data Exist
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Table 4.8.2: Existing Long Term Wat
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Shaws Creek is not a Policy 2 water
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Nitrate is a dissolved nitrogen spe
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1.00 0.80 TKN, mg/L 0.60 0.40 0.20
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Diurnal Monitoring Two sets of diur
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Compared to the DO results from the
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Table 4.8.5: Summary Statistics of
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450 400 350 300 Iron, ug/L 250 200
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of sampling occasions) as shown in
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300 250 Chloride, mg/L 200 150 100
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Figure 4.8.17: Facing downstream to
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In general, these results indicate
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4.9 Septic System Impact Assessment
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Review Summary The groundwater flow
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for Alton during emergency conditio
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The current permit to take water (P
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presents a preliminary list of serv
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assimilative capacity is defined as
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Table 5.4.1 Information Required In
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Beech Grove Sideroad is an unpaved
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FIGURE 6.4.1 REGIONAL ROAD 136 AND
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8.0 COMMUNITY CONSULTATION 8.1 Back
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GLOSSARY Aquifer. A natural undergr
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REFERENCES Chapter 2 Policy Context
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Chapter 4 Environmental Component A
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Credit Valley Conservation. Shaws C
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Province of Ontario. 1999. Natural
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