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Niagara Escarpment Plan

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Ontario's Niagara Escarpment is a provincially and internationally significant geological landform and one of Canada's most magnificent landforms. The Escarpment is a forested ridge traveling 725 km from Queenston, near Niagara Falls, to Tobermory, at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula. Ontario's Niagara Escarpment stretches across portions of eight counties or regions, which include 23 local municipalities.

The Niagara Escarpment Plan enacted by the Ontario Legislature in June 1973, established the Commission, purpose and objectives of the Act, procedures for Plan preparation, approval, review, amendment and the framework for development permits. The Niagara Escarpment Plan Area covers 183,311 ha.

The Niagara Escarpment Plan includes policies for seven land-use designations (Natural, Protection, Rural, Recreation, Urban, Minor Urban and Mineral Resource Extraction), provides development criteria and establishes objectives for the Niagara Escarpment Parks System as 117 parks and protected areas.

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More information is available on the Niagara Escarpment Commission Web site.

Access

Search for and download the physiography data from the Data Resource Centre Geospatial Data Explorer.
Note: to download geospatial data from off-campus users will first need to install CISCO IPSec VPN Access software available (a free download) from the University of Guelph CCS software distribution Web site.

Download Size: 10 mb.

Projection & Datum

  • UTM, NAD83, CNT, Zone 17
  • Units – Meters

Layers

Data available for use in GIS software is listed below. Contact the Data Resource Centre for access at

  • Area of Development Control
  • Landscape Evaluation Study
  • Minor Urban Centre
  • Niagara Escarpment Parks and Open Space system
  • Niagara escarpment Plan Amendments
  • Niagara Escarpment Plan Boundary
  • Niagara Escarpment Plan Designations
  • Niagara Escarpment Plan [geodatabase]
  • Niagara Escarpment Planning Area Boundary
  • Special Policy Areas

Maps

Maps in PDF format can be downloaded from the NEC Web site.

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Data Access

Contact

519–824–4120 ext. 56417

Visit

The DRC is located behind the Research Help desk in the McLaughlin Library.

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Last updated May 27th 2011 by R.E.C. (details)