Is a Pickering address in the Greenbelt or the Oak Ridges Moraine?

The Province's Greenbelt map series names the City of Pickering on three Protected Countryside sheets (11, 15 and 16), shared with Whitby, Ajax, Oshawa, Scugog, Markham, Whitchurch-Stouffville and Toronto, and on Urban River Valley sheets for Duffins Creek and Carruthers Creek; the Province notes that in Urban River Valley areas the Greenbelt Plan's policies apply only to publicly owned land. In 2017 land on the east side of the Rouge Park in Pickering was removed from the Protected Countryside. In 2022 land south of Highway 407, west of West Duffins Creek and north of the CP Belleville rail line was removed too, and the Province's map page says all of the 2022 removals were returned to the Protected Countryside by the changes to the Greenbelt Act made on December 6, 2023.

The Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan's sectional Map 5 covers Pickering and Uxbridge, and the moraine's boundary sheets 7 and 9 list Pickering. The Province's interactive Greenbelt map shows the boundary as enacted in the Greenbelt Act, 2005, as amended on December 6, 2023. 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, land-use designations and interactive map
• Oak Ridges Moraine maps: the moraine plan's land use designation maps, boundary sheets and interactive 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