Short Take: Healthy Lakes, Natural Shorelines and the County Shoreline Preservation Bylaw

<p>In this episode of Planet Haliburton Short Takes, we focus on the debate surrounding the recent tabling of a draft County-wide Shoreline Preservation Bylaw. A massive 60 lake, 12,000 property “Love Your Lake” shoreline heath assessment was carried out across Haliburton County by the Coalition for Haliburton Property Owner’s Associations (CHA) between 2014 and 2018. That study found that only 47% of Haliburton’s shorelines are in a “natural” state when 75% is the recognized minimum required to maintain healthy lake water quality.</p><p>A draft bylaw designed to protect the remaining natural shoreline was presented at the February 12th County Council meeting but immediately met with considerable push back from the Haliburton County Home Builders’ Association and others employed doing shoreline work.</p><p>To help us understand the need for, and resistance to, strong legal protection for natural shorelines, the CHA’s Paul MacInness and Dysart Ward 4 Councillor and Chair of the Environment and Climate Change Committee, John Smith, join us on the first episode of “Planet Haliburton Short Takes”.</p><p><br></p><p>Show Notes: https://canoefm.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Resource-list-for-Healthy-Shorelines-Healthy-Lakes-and-the-County-Shoreline-Preservation-Bylaw.pdf&lt;/p&gt;