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Plugged into Pipeline Exclusion Zones iStock/ alexsi; macrovector; Astamais
Safety bureaucrats set landowners up for stealth expropriation
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rom large-scale residential subdivision developments to grain elevators and livestock barns to backyard swimming pools, landuse development requires municipal consent, often in the form of a building permit.
Across Canada, elected local and regional planning officials make decisions on applications to develop land with guidance from provincial policymakers. Provincial policies are adopted in local and regional official plans and zoning bylaws which govern the types of development that can take place in any given location. The Manitoba Pipeline Landown-
ers Association (MPLA), a member association of CAEPLA, recently wrote to the Province of Manitoba to express its concerns about the “pipeline plug-in” included in the Municipal Planning Guide to Zoning Bylaws in Manitoba. The plug-in is ready-made language that can be inserted by local and regional planning authorities into zoning bylaws.
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