Linking Mapping to Policy:
General Planning Objectives

Wherever feasible, policies should be further refined to include or refer to measurable, quantitative targets and performance indicators that are supported by a funded monitoring and adaptive management program. 

1.     Maintain intact ecosystems and their functions

2.     Maintain connectivity between important habitat and intact ecosystems

3.     Restore degraded ecosystems. 

4.     Consider ecological integrity and the cumulative effects of development on natural assets in planning and development permit decisions.

5.     Frame environmental protection and policies around the principles of precaution, connectivity, and restoration.

6.     Embed region-wide and watershed level conservation objectives consistently within and across policies and jurisdictions.

7.     Align land-use and development policies across the jurisdiction through coordination and collaboration.

8.     Base planning and development decisions on comprehensive science-based knowledge, including up-to-date maps.

9.     Shift development permitting from prescriptive environmental standards to performance-based standards that set out desired outcomes and actions on how to meet the standards.

10.  Enact zoning bylaws and land use designations that have environmental protection as a specific purpose.

11.   Update long-term policies and bylaws to conform with DRIPA. 

12.  Ensure climate and natural asset targets in policy documents are quantifiable and linked to activities local governments can achieve.