The land use plan proposed by the local council is the most important planning tool for the municipality. 'It establishes the strategic guidelines of the spatial organization and development for the Lac-des-seize-Iles's global territory.

Recently decided by the municipal corporation, the remodelling of the urban regulations will draw the new aspects of the spatial evolution, and will correspond better to the actual development in order to anticipate the future.

On the 20th of October 2000, there will be a public consultation concerning the adoption of the new plan and urban regulations. The abstract that follows describes the principal territorial development strategies and the aspects of the spatial planning document.

This plan allows us to coordinate the investment programs for the infrastructures and the equipment, to promote the municipality for the investors and private developers, and to assure the municipal objectives conform to the MRC's.

Thus, it provides the basics for the new urban regulations,

The obligatory tenor of the land use plan falls under Act Respecting Land Use Planning and Development (R.S.Q., c, A-19.1.). It must address the major orientations of the territory management, the principal ground affectations and, densities occupation [c.83).

This document is structured in 6 chapters;

Chapter 1- "the municipality's recent history"

Chapter 2- "the municipal profile"

Chapter 3- "the orientations, objectives and strategies of the territory management's plan"

Chapter 4- "ground affectations and density occupation"

Chapter 5- "synoptic table of the main development orientations"

Chapter 6- "the diagnosis of a specific problem"

THE GROUND AFFECTATION AND DENSITY OCCUPATION

The ground affectation defines the main vocation of each zone within municipality.

These ground affectations and densities reflect the logic and the objectives shown in the municipal politics for territory development.

The prerogative's challenge to stimulate the development potential could be summed up in the confirmation of Lac-des-seize-Iles as a great holiday resort which offers a high quality of life.

In this way, two strategic sites have been retained:

• The village centre, whose management guidelines are describe in chapter 3.

• The reorganisation of road 364 around the church district. This specific problem is addressed in chapter 6.

Here the ground affectation is divided into 5 distinctive zones. Each of them are characteristically different and have a special vocation:

• the heart of the village
• the urban periphery
• the residential domains
• the entertainment conservation zone the undeveloped sector

For each defined zone an occupation density has been attributed. It spaces out from very low dens (0.2 lodging/ha) to high density (25 lodging / ha).

The ground affectations map summarises this spatial organization territory.

It is used as the basics to elaborate the urban regulations to govern the municipal urbanism, and especially the zoning rules that describe the precise active norms for each zone. (see grid for details specifications annexed at the urban regulations of the municipality).

THE ORIENTATION AND MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES

Orientation 1: Protect the natural ambient quality

Objective 1: Protect the hydrographical system quality

Tools:

- Maintain the water quality with regular inspection
- Constrain the implementation norms at 15 meters everywhere around the lakes

Objective 2: Maintain the quality forested region

Tools:

- Keep strict norms for the lumbering in the natural area and in the visual corridor
- Support the reforestation to maintain the quality forested region
- Manage appropriate settlement in the mountain areas

Orientation 2: Preserve the actual character of the municipality as an holiday resort

Objective 1: Maintain the settlement development harmony with the natural ambient

Tools:

- Maintain the priority of the low density settlement
- Continue to require a minimum of 4000 square meters for every new implementation in the zone "unifamilial"
- Establish special conditions for implementation in humid zones

Objective 2: Protect the architectural patrimony

Tools:

• Establish specific architectural norms for new implementation
• Evaluate the pertinence of architectural patrimony protection

Orientation 3: Revive the heart of the village

Objective 1: Restructure the institutional centre in the church district

Tools:

• Restore the church square
• Relocate the city hall parking lot in front of the edifice at the back door
• Plant trees and manage the landscape
• Install bike racks at the entrance of the public beach
• Build a volley-ball ground on the east side of the parking lot
• Remove the asphalt in between the beach and the parking lot
• Cover the beach with sand
• Enhance the touristic signs in the heart of the village

Objective 2: Link the junction of the road 364 and the aerobic corridor in the village

Tools: