Is a Burlington address in the Greenbelt or the Niagara Escarpment Plan area?

The Province's Protected Countryside boundary sheets 26, 27 and 31 each list the City of Burlington among their municipalities, and Urban River Valley sheet 47 covers Grindstone Creek in the city; the Province says the Greenbelt Plan's policies apply only to publicly owned lands in the Urban River Valley areas. The Niagara Escarpment Plan is part of the Greenbelt too: its Map 3 covers Halton Region, and the plan's list of amendments names properties in the City of Burlington.

The Niagara Escarpment Commission says landowners in its Area of Development Control need a Niagara Escarpment Development Permit for certain development, that many common projects are exempt, and that its property map shows whether a lot is in that area. A result from the provincial layers says whether an address falls inside a mapped area and which designation; it is a planning boundary, not a statement about what a particular lot may be used for.

• Ontario Greenbelt maps: the Province's boundary sheets for the Protected Countryside and the Urban River Valley areas, and the interactive map
• Urban River Valley sheet 47: Grindstone Creek in the City of Burlington (PDF)
• Niagara Escarpment Plan maps: the Niagara Escarpment Commission's plan maps, Map 3 for Halton Region (PDF)
• Buying or developing lands in the Niagara Escarpment Plan Area: the Commission's page on Development Permits and its property map

The Greenbelt, Moraine and Escarpment check runs for any Ontario address, in the free check and in the full report, from the Province's layers, and names the designation where one applies. It reads the mapped boundaries; it is not a reading of the City's Official Plan or zoning for a lot.

Free check: pick “Greenbelt, Moraine, Escarpment” See the sample report