Moraine Watch Manual

MTM is pleased to announce that our policy monitoring manual is now available online!

Click here to download the entire manual (1.81 MB pdf).
Click here to download the checklist (96 KB pdf).

The Moraine Watch Manual is a how-to guide for community members to monitor land use planning activity and the performance of their municipal government on moraine-related planning. The manual includes the Moraine Watch Checklist – a step-by-step worksheet for evaluating planning applications, as well as detailed background information on land-use planning and legislation relevant to the moraine.

Community-led policy monitoring is important for a number of reasons. The ORMCP, despite being a provincial land use plan, is implemented by municipalities through official plans and zoning by-laws amended to conform to the ORMCP. With no legislated provincial oversight to monitor municipal performance, it falls to STORM through the MTM project, to design and deliver Moraine Watch – community-led policy monitoring on the Oak Ridges Moraine. Moraine Watch can be used by community groups to get involved in municipal governance and to ensure that decisions and planning applications are in compliance with the ORMCP.  In addition, this information will be helpful at the 2014 Plan review to determine how effective the ORMCP is in protecting the moraine’s ecological integrity.

Thank you for your interest in the Oak Ridges Moraine.

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