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Regional Management Councils
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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
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OTC – Trail Initiatives
Assisting Locally by working
Provincially
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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