From the North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance September 13 2013The Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority’s (LSRCA) Watershed Development Policy 11.4.1.2 — a.k.a., the Maple Lake Estates Loophole — provides automatic approval for development in registered plans of subdivision that are within provin...
New Tecumseth Free Press September 3, 2013The Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority's (NVCA) board of directors overruled its staff's recommendation at an appeal hearing Friday and will permit New Tecumseth resident Larry Smilsky to build a single family home within the regulated flood zone on hi...
AWARE Simcoe September 3 2013The following is the text of and voting record for two motions whereby the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority board of directors voted down a staff recommendation to refuse an application for construction of a home in a floodplain, and then approved the application...
By Sandy Agnew AWARE News Network, September 2 2013A recent decision by the Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority (NVCA) board to allow construction of a home in a floodplain goes against 60 years of careful conservation authority planning and has the potential to be used as justification for fur...
Report of June 28, 2013 NVCA Board Meeting By Sandy Agnew, AWARE Simcoe News Network July 5 2013The reason that conservation authorities exist today is that, in the 1940s, the government of Ontario realized that building in the flood plain always results in homes and businesses getting flooded and pe...
NVCA 2013-2017 STRATEGIC PLAN TO BE PRESENTED AT THE AUGUST 30/13MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORSReport of June 28 NVCA meetingThe Board of Directors received the Draft five-year Strategic Plan which wasdeveloped based on input from NVCA board members and stakeholders. TheStrategic Plan Committee wa...
By Emily Innes, Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin June 7, 2013A citizen’s group has inspired the federal NDP caucus to launch a campaign to restore protection of the Nottawasaga River.In April, the NDP began trying to reverse changes to the Navigable Waters Protections Act by starting with the Canadian...
By The Canadian Press June 4, 2013 OTTAWA - The NDP is introducing another round of private member's bills aimed at restoring environmental protections to lakes and rivers.A first batch of bills introduced in April dealt with protections to what are known as Heritage Rivers, but the second group deal...
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