Innisfil Official Plan OMB Approved - Town of Innisfil
Innisfil Official Plan OMB Approved - Town of Innisfil
Innisfil Official Plan OMB Approved - Town of Innisfil
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<strong>Town</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Innisfil</strong> <strong>Official</strong> <strong>Plan</strong>MUNICIPAL STRUCTUREThe Natural Heritage System is an overlay designation and provides additional natural heritageprotection policies to those set out in Section 3.1. It is not intended to affect the continuation <strong>of</strong>existing uses or prohibit future development, unless otherwise designated on the land useSchedules B and B1 to B14. It is the intent, however, that new development maintains andprotects the function <strong>of</strong> these linkages. Significant natural features within and outside theNatural Heritage System (e.g., woodlands, wetlands, etc.) will be delineated and protectedthrough specific policies in the Natural Environment Designation as set out in Section 3.1.Goals:To protect and enhance the natural environment <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Town</strong>.Objectives:1. To maintain, restore and enhance the biological diversity <strong>of</strong> natural heritage featuresand their long term ecological function within the context <strong>of</strong> a Natural Heritage System.2. To maintain, restore and where possible improve, the functional connections amongnatural heritage features (i.e., improve the ability for flora and fauna to move within thenatural Heritage System).3. To protect, improve or restore the quality and quantity <strong>of</strong> water.4. To identify surface water features, ground water features, hydrologic functions andnatural heritage features and areas, and the linkages and related functions among them,which are necessary for the ecological and hydrological integrity <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Town</strong>’swatersheds.5. To promote the rehabilitation <strong>of</strong> the Natural Heritage System, including linkages amongexisting natural heritage features.6. To conserve the natural character, form, and function <strong>of</strong> environmental features within alocal Natural Heritage System, as a means <strong>of</strong> sustaining and promoting the naturalheritage <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Town</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Innisfil</strong>.Policies:2.4.1 The boundaries <strong>of</strong> the Natural Heritage System, as shown on Schedule A, are schematicand shall be refined if and when land use changes are proposed. At that time, thespatial extent and functional requirements <strong>of</strong> linkages shall be determined through awatershed plan, Secondary <strong>Plan</strong> and /or Environmental Impact Study (EIS) process andthe boundaries <strong>of</strong> the NHS refined using the principles provided in Section 2.4.7. Wheresuch studies delineate lands to be protected from development in order to maintain thelinkage function, these areas may be designated Natural Environmental Area as perSection 3.1 and shown on Schedules B and B1 to B14.2.4.2 Where no land uses changes are contemplated, the protection and enhancement <strong>of</strong>linkages within the Natural Heritage System shall be encouraged through landstewardship.11Adopted July 26, 2006 <strong>Approved</strong> by <strong>OMB</strong> May 2009, March 2010 & April 8, 2011
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