Niagara Escarpment Plan Boundary Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: The Niagara Escarpment Plan Boundary represents the area of jurisdiction in which the policies and objectives of the Niagara Escarpment Plan apply. The outer boundary of the area covered by the Niagara Escarpment Plan is fixed and inflexible, and can be changed only by a Plan Amendment. It is formed by a combination of such features as roads, railways, electrical transmission lines, municipal and property boundaries, lot lines, rivers and topographic features. The Niagara Escarpment Planning and Development Act, serves as the framework of objectives and policies to strike a balance between development, preservation and the enjoyment of the Escarpment and to provide for the maintenance of the Niagara Escarpment and land in its vicinity substantially as a continuous natural environment, and to ensure only such development occurs as is compatible with that natural environment. Additional information can be found at: http://www.escarpment.org

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2014-05-28

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  190647bc-4597-4552-a678-643f05a55539

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  

  Niagara Escarpment Commission Georgetown Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: environment

  Keywords:

  NIAGARA ESCARPMENT PLAN AREA, NIAGARA ESCAPMENT PLAN, NEP, ESCARPMENT PLAN, GREENBELT PLAN, ESCARPMENT, LAND MANAGEMENT, LAND USE PLANNING, LAND USE, PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, MUNICIPAL PLANNING

  LAND USE, LAND USE PLANNING, PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABILITY

  Land management, Gestion des terres, Planning, Planification, Development, Développement, Sustainable development, Développement durable

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  To depict the boundary of the Niagara Escarpment Plan Area for the purposed of administering the Niagara Escarpment Plan.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: onGoing

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  ArcGIS 9.x file geodatabase

  Extent

  West Longitude: -81.776235

  East Longitude: -79.045421

  North Latitude: 45.327784

  South Latitude: 43.046740

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 14

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Data Quality Information

  Scope Level: dataset

  
  

  Process step:

  Digitized from Ontario Base Maps (OBM): 1:10,000.

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange, Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) Peterborough Ontario, Canada

• Related Links

  • Ontario's Niagara Escarpment