Regional Management Councils

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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 RMCs 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
• 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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More Information

• www.active2010.ca
• www.pausetoplay.ca
• www.ontariotrails.on.ca