What can be done with The Environmental Reserve Areas?
All levels of Government agree, and find it increasingly important to protect the Shoreline and Fisheries of Canada’s rivers and lakes, therefore increasing pressure and protection regulations have been established and strictly enforced. The Planning and Development Act, 1983 states: ” an environmental reserve may be used as a public park or for any other use that the minister may by regulation specify, but, where it is not so used, it shall be left in its natural state” Official Provincial Government Response August, 2005 We realize that the “Act” does not exactly explain what can be done. Under the legislation boathouses and any other private uses, such as private stairs from adjacent house are illegal developments on these lands. In many areas people do keep the weeds down to keep the area attractive and useful for all. It is the municipality however, not the provincial government that administers the environmental reserve.
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