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Regional Management Councils. Regional Management Council Development. Mission - work with communities to implement comprehensive trail management Get diverse trail managers together 3 year plan to consolidate RMC members Definition of regional areas
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Regional Management Council Development Mission - work with communities to implement comprehensive trail management • Get diverse trail managers together • 3 year plan to consolidate RMC members • Definition of regional areas • Create a short list of regional trail problems • Share solutions, new practices, funding, programs • Sustain trails • Create at least 41 RMC’s by year end • Tie into Significant Government Funding – Infrastructure as per provincial budget • Tie into Policy as per the Provincial trails Strategy
OTC – Trail Initiatives Assisting Locally by working Provincially • Marketing and promotion of OTC • Marketing and Promotion of trail success stories • Developing plans and strategies to enable projects: • Trails-Health Events • Youth programs • Linkages to funders and alignment with purposes and objectives • Know about trails, parks, tourism, major international and various types
Trails Inventory In your region municipalities charged with infrastructure audit function • Municipal Performance Measures Program • Cataloguing trail infrastructure locally • Municipal Government and Parks and Recreation Ontario • New relationship with Ontario Recreational Facilities Association
Action OTC/TCT and your Regional Management Council can lead the way! • Enact changes in the MFTIP - stay of MPAC • Implement the TTN - similar to Haliburton, Sudbury, Ottawa, and Niagara • Ensure trails form part of municipal assessment • Ensure Trails are considered in Land Use Management or Planning • Provide Youth Programs through CIAF, or participate in a Health-Unit Trails Event • Develop your own regional initiative – completion of Trillium Trails Network
NIMBY Addressing NIMBY in your area • Legal Issues - Liability • Privacy – land use • Crime, vandalism – land access • Need to make an argument for planning of such an important infrastructure at the local, regional and provincial levels
Land Use Developing Lands in your area • Remediation of lands towards greenways • Controlled by Municipalities or Crown Land Agencies • GTA Greenbelt • Rail to Trail Conversion one method of utilizing brown zones, corridor lines • Great grade, poor materials • Hydro Corridors • Ontario Hydro, Ontario Realty Corp. and Municipal Act
Planning for Trail Infrastructure OTC Plans are available for Use by your Trails Community • We have a community development guidebook • ATV Ontario Community Development template • OFSC Trails Specifics Manuals • OTC How to Build Trail Handbooks • IMBA Trail Building Manuals - and Course • Bruce Trail Trail Management Manual • Bruce-Grey County Trails Management Manual
Conclusion Local Determination • Niagara Region– involves municipal, Canada Parks, Conservation Area, Community and User groups • Outcomes – International Trails Day celebration in Fort Erie June, 2005,06,07 • 2ND outcome – current committee meeting already for next year • Near North – Municipalities of Muskoka, Parry Sound, Gravenhurst, Haliburton; involves user groups, atv, snow clubs, FON, and Health Units, MNR • Outcome - formation of a working group to move trail issues forward, met– dealing with MTO issues
Conclusion Local Determination • Mid-West Region– involves municipal, tourism, health, Cambridge, Guelph, Brantford, and Hamilton • Outcomes – initial meeting June 2005, discussed completion of TCT Trail – meeting regularly in Ingersoll to discuss additional projects, next steps TCT • Eastern Region – Municipalities of Kawartha Lakes, City of Peterborough, Eastern Ontario Communities through EOTA; involves user groups, atv, snow clubs, FON, and Health Units, MNR • Outcomes - coalescing a working group group to move trail issues forward, dealing with trail pass and inventory issues
Successes through RMC Process Some Communities in development • North – Thunder bay, Atikokan, North Shore and Nipigon all working on a meeting for March, raise profile of health and trail issues, winter sports • Chatham-Kent Essex/Lambton - meeting in February to complete link to TCT and in order to complete intra-county completion of trail systems. • National Capital Region – posting joint TTN OBR signage • Bruce Grey Region – wants to meet to discuss land access issues with ATV users to ensure municipal trail regulations are followed.
More Information www.active2010.ca www.pausetoplay.ca www.ontariotrails.on.ca