Kawartha Lakes: questions buyers ask

Is a Kawartha Lakes address in the Greenbelt or the Oak Ridges Moraine?

The Province's Greenbelt Protected Countryside boundary sheets, the Oak Ridges Moraine boundary sheets and land use designation maps, and the City's Oak Ridges Moraine Zoning By-law 2005-133.

Sources checked October 29, 2026

Kawartha Lakes
  1. The recordOak Ridges Moraine and Greenbelt
  2. Where to read itOntario Greenbelt maps; Oak Ridges Moraine maps and 1 more
  3. The free check reads itPick “Greenbelt, Moraine, Escarpment”

What the record shows

The Province's Greenbelt maps list Protected Countryside Sheet 4 for the City of Kawartha Lakes, and its Oak Ridges Moraine maps list the City on boundary Sheets 10, 11 and 12 and on sectional land use designation Map 8, titled for Cavan-Millbrook-North Monaghan and the City of Kawartha Lakes. The Province says the Greenbelt extends from the eastern end of the Oak Ridges Moraine, near Rice Lake, to the Niagara River.

The City's Oak Ridges Moraine Zoning By-law 2005-133, approved and modified by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing in 2007, replaced the geographic Township of Manvers Zoning By-law for the moraine lands, with its own core area, linkage area, countryside and environmental protection zones, and the City's additional units guide allows only one additional unit, inside a single detached house, on the moraine. 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.

Where to read it yourself

What OfferDue covers in Kawartha Lakes

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

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