PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE
Proposed Official Plan Amendment (OPA) No. 211 re: Rockside Cultural Heritage Landscape

Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 7:00 pm

Town Hall Council Chambers

The purpose of the proposed OPA 211 is to establish policies that will recognize and protect the Rockside Cultural Heritage Landscape. The map below shows the lands subject to proposed OPA No. 211. Some of these lands are within the

Niagara Escarpment Plan area and as such are also subject to the Niagara Escarpment Planning and Development Act.

The recognition and conservation of significant cultural heritage landscapes is required by the Provincial Policy Statement, the Region of Peel Official Plan and Caledon's Official Plan. Cultural heritage landscapes illustrate noteworthy historic relationships between people and their surrounding environment.

The Rockside Cultural Heritage Landscape is of significance as the earliest area of settlement in the former Caledon Township, and for its historical association with a group of Scottish settlers who became known in local lore as the 'Rockside Pioneers'. This community, initially geographically isolated from the eastern section of the township by the spine of the Niagara Escarpment, developed into an internally coherent and distinct entity, as manifested in the area's consistent building forms and materials, and land use patterns. The community developed into an internally coherent and distinct entity, as manifested in the area's consistent building forms and materials, and land use patterns. Key elements of the Rockside Cultural Heritage Landscape include early residential, farm and institutional buildings, extensive dry stone walls and cedar rail fencing demarcating roadsides and field boundaries, early small field patterns, roadside and lane vegetation, road character, and views and viewsheds.

The key objective of the proposed OPA is to ensure that the Rockside Cultural Heritage Landscape is conserved in such a way that its heritage values, attributes and integrity are retained. This Public Meeting is intended to satisfy the public consultation requirements established by the Planning Act. After the Public Meeting, the proposed OPA will be brought to a subsequent meeting of the Town Council for adoption. If you wish to be notified of the adoption of the proposed OPA, you must make a written request to the Town of Caledon Planning & Development Department.

If a person or public body that files a notice of appeal of a decision of the Town of Caledon in respect of the proposed OPA does not make oral submissions at a public meeting, or make written submissions to the Town before the proposed OPA is adopted, the Ontario Municipal Board may dismiss all or part of the appeal.

Proposed OPA 211 will be available for public review a minimum of twenty (20) days prior to the Public Meeting. Copies can be obtained from the Town's Planning & Development Department by phone, website or in person. Written submissions may be mailed or personally delivered to the Planning & Development Department (office hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 4:30 pm.).