Innisfil Official Plan OMB Approved - Town of Innisfil

Town of Innisfil Official PlanIMPLEMENTATION9.20.47 Site alteration: means activities, such as grading, excavation and the placement of fillthat would change the landform and natural vegetative characteristics of a site.9. 20.48 Significant Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Resources means resources thatare valued for the important contribution they make to our understanding of the historyof a place, an event, or a people. Criteria for determining significance for theresources identified in sections (c)-(g) are recommended by the Province, butmunicipal approaches that achieve or exceed the same objective may also be used.While some significant resources may already be identified and inventoried by officialsources, the significance of others can only be determined after evaluation.9. 20.49 Specialty Crop Areas: means areas designated using evaluation proceduresestablished by the province, as amended from time to time, where specialty cropssuch as tender fruits (peaches, cherries, plums), grapes, other fruit crops, vegetablecrops, greenhouse crops, and crops from agriculturally developed organic soil landsare predominantly grown, usually resulting from:a) soils that have suitability to produce specialty crops, or lands that are subject tospecial climatic conditions, or a combination of both; and/orb) a combination of farmers skilled in the production of specialty crops, and of capitalinvestment in related facilities and services to produce, store, or process specialtycrops.9.20.50 Strip Development: means lots along arterial, collector and local roads in theCountryside, which are not part of an internal local road system designed specificallyto provide groups of residential, commercial, industrial, or similar lots with access; andwhere lots are arranged in linear configurations of more than three non-farm lots within200 metres of the proposed lot line as measured along the frontage of one side of theroad.9.20.51 Surface water feature: refers to water-related features on the earth’s surface,including headwaters, rivers, stream channels, inland lakes, seepage areas,recharge/discharge areas, springs, wetlands, and associated riparian lands that can bedefined by their soil moisture, soil type, vegetation or topographic characteristics. It isnot intended to include small surface water features such as farm ponds or stormwatermanagement ponds, which would have limited ecological function9.20.52 Valleylands: means a natural area that occurs in a valley or other landformdepression that has water flowing through or standing for some period of the year.9.20.53 Vulnerable surface or groundwater: means surface and groundwater that can beeasily changed or impacted by activities or events, either by virtue of their vicinity tosuch activities or events or by permissive pathways between such activities and thesurface and/or groundwater.9.20.54 Watercourse: means a body of water flowing in a reasonably definite channel withbed and banks.9.20.55 Wildlife habitat: means areas where plants, animals and other organisms live, andfind adequate amounts of food, water, shelter and space needed to sustain their140Adopted July 26, 2006 Approved by OMB May 2009, March 2010 & April 8, 2011