(posted to the GA List, 20 May 2015)
As usual, the NCC has worked in its mysterious ways. Just over a year ago [in April 2014], on a tight deadline following a public meeting, one was asked to send in comments on a draft Capital Urban Lands Master Plan, its numerous Appendices and a draft NCC Policy for Parkways. Silence followed. Then, at its meeting of April 22, 2015, the Board of Directors approved the final Plan. It’s no longer called a Master Plan, just a Plan.
The staff report, the actual Plan, an extensive consultation report, and the slides used by staff in its presentation to the Board are all wrapped up in one 204 pp.,11 MB document.
[Archivist’s Note: The document has disappeared from the NCC’s web site but find the Plan and the Consultation Report here: http://ncc-ccn.gc.ca/our-plans/urban-lands-plan]
On a quick skim, new in this plan is the recognition of a Regional Interest Land Mass in addition to the NILM (National Interest Land Mass). That is saving the Southern Corridor but not the Woodroffe-Merrivale Corridor, which remains an ominous “Other.”
The summary table and key map are attached.
Erwin