Just the facts ma’am – David Guergis and the NVCA

By Kate Harries AWARE Simcoe October 24 2010
Last week, many Essa residents received phone messages from mayoral candidate David Guergis, claiming that his opponent Terry Dowdall supported “massive expansion” of the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority regulatory area. 

 “These regulations have affected hundreds of property owners, stopped new jobs and taxes from coming to Essa,” Guergis says. “I am fighting to get your property rights back.”
FACT: Floodlines were mapped for Angus in 1989 when all of the floodplain was subject to a One-Zone floodplain policy.
FACT: In 1998, the Province of Ontario revised the Conservation Authorities Act and introduced new “Generic Regulations” that would apply across Ontario. 
FACT: In 2000, Essa Council adopted a less restrictive Two-Zone floodplain policy, which allows some development in the “flood fringe”.
FACT: In 2001, Essa Council hired Greenland Consulting to update the 1989 floodplain mapping.
FACT: Overall the area covered by floodplain policy was reduced by 2.1% with the new mapping.
FACT: However there are six properties in Angus which are now affected by Floodway policy, the most restrictive component of floodplain policy, to an extent that may be of serious concern to the landowner.
FACT: There are many safe areas left to develop in Angus.