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Setback from Watercourses and Waterbodies (Section 69)
69.
(1)
Subject to subsection (3), despite the provisions of the underlying zone, the minimum
setbacks set forth in subsection (2) must be provided to provide a margin of safety from
hazards associated with flooding and unstable slopes and to help protect the
environmental quality of watercourses and waterbodies.
(2)
Except for flood or erosion control works, or a public bridge or a marine facility, no
building or structure, including any part of a sewage system, which does not require
plan of subdivision, or site plan control approval, shall be located closer than:
(a)
30 m to the normal highwater mark of any watercourse or waterbody, or
(b)
15 m to the top of the bank of any watercourse or waterbody,
whichever is the greater.
(3)
Development requiring a plan of subdivision or that is subject to site plan control must
provide the watercourse or waterbody setbacks set forth in subsection (2) unless, as
established through conditions of approval, a different setback is determined to be
appropriate in accordance with the criteria set forth in the Official Plan. (By-law 2009-
347)