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les
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Post Number: 35
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 2:14 pm: | 
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So what exactly is the Crown Land Use Policy Atlas? The first use of the term 'atlas' was by Gerardus Mercator and Abraham Ortelius who put together their collection of world maps in 1570. So is the CLUPA simply an atlas; a collection of land use planing documents put up online for reference purposes only? Or is it actually a planning mechanism that will allow the MNR to issue or amend land use plans/policies on a provincial scale without actually amending local plans like the Temagami Land Use Plan?
Re my comments to the MNR about the currently proposed amendments to the TLUP and the CLUPA, integrating the TLUP into the CLUPA I have asked that the following clause be inserted into the amendment:
The original 1997 printed version of the Temagami Land Use Plan and its previous amendments constitute the defining document for land use planning in the Temagami District and the text of this document, in its weight, scope, intent and amending process, supersedes any terms, conditions, parameters or amending processes of the Crown Land Use Policy Atlas. The Temagami Land Use Plan is a free standing document and is included in the Crown Land Use Policy Atlas for online reference purposes only.
The intention here is to prevent any policy changes on a provincial scale that may be attempted within the context of the CLUPA from bearing upon Temagami without a separate review process within the context of the original TLUP and to hedge against any possible errors, omissions or oversights in the currently proposed amendment. In fact, it is extremely important that the CLUPA is not a mechanism for amending or issuing land use policy (possibly resulting in provincial homogenization of all districts) and that it is never more than anything other than an atlas; a collection of free standing policy documents, assembled for online reference purposes only.
If, in fact, it is the intention of the MNR to use the CLUPA as an overriding framework for issuing or amending provincial land use policy then the use of the word ‘Atlas', in my view, would be a bit misleading and the true intention of the “Atlas” has not, in my view, been made absolutely clear to the public.
I have asked the MNR about the exact purpose of the CLUPA and am awaiting an answer.
Les. |
grncnu
Member
Post Number: 202
Registered: 08-2010
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 10:52 pm: |
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though i'm in no way familiar with either tlup or clupa, it seems to me that these questions are valid and deserve a straight answer.
presumably the land use atlas would be of little use unless it were comprehensive, i.e. incorporating all the binding land use planning for each individual district.
maps (or atlases) are not particularily useful if they don't reflect actual conditions on the ground... |
les
Member
Post Number: 36
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 5:49 pm: |
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What I didn't understand initially is that the CLUPA is being amended to accommodate the TLUP. The amendment to the TLUP is to make it fit into the format of the CLUPA. I was at a meeting with MNR staff on Tuesday evening at the Temagami Library to review the amendments and I and my associates found several discrepancies (one involving ATV usage). It's like translating from one language to another and trying to find the words that fit the best even though something gets lost in the translation.
The fact that the CLUPA is being amended makes me wonder:
1/ If it's just a collection of free standing documents for reference purposes only then why does it require an amendment?
2/ It's amendable?! Could a general land use policy amendment that catches everything in the atlas be applied?
I agree that the CLUPA should be comprehensive in its content but it should not be able to be used to apply policy changes in a broad manner without going through the individual local processes for each document.
I'm very suspicious about the workings of government. Things that initially appear to be benign have a way of evolving into something other. Along with asking the government what they are doing we also need to ask what they are not doing.
Les.
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