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Sea-to-Sky Land and Resource Management Plan (LRMP)

Final Sea-to-Sky LRMP

The Sea-to-Sky LRMP lays out general management direction for values identified by First Nations and the Planning Forum, such as water, wildlife, and recreation. It also identifies land use zones to guide the management of resources across the landscape:

  • The All Resource Uses Permitted Zone (47% of the Plan Area), where the range of resource uses and activities may be permitted, subject to existing legislation and policy. Within the All Resource Uses Permitted Zone, there are two sub-zones for which additional management direction applies:
    • The Frontcountry Area, which is the gateway through which all visitors to the region pass and where the majority of residents make their home. The Frontcountry Area follows the major transportation routes through the Plan Area from Lions Bay to D'arcy, and has very high visual quality and recreation values that are accounted for in the Area's management direction; and
    • Cultural Management Areas , which were identified through G2G agreements with First Nations. Within Cultural Management Areas, integrated resource management must be conducted in a manner that is consistent with First Nations cultural values and ecological values. There are nine Cultural Management Areas in the Plan Area.
  • Wildland Zones (27% of the Plan Area), which are areas identified as having high First Nations cultural values, wildlife habitat values, and/or a remote and natural wilderness character. Within Wildland Zones, tourism and subsurface resource development may be permitted, but commercial forest harvesting and commercial power generation infrastructure (independent power projects, or IPPs) are not allowed. Wildland Zones have a Cultural, Recreation, Tourism, or Wildlife emphasis.
  • Protected Areas (existing parks and new Conservancies - 26% of the Plan Area), which are areas in which no industrial resource development activities are permitted, in order to protect the high values of these areas to First Nations and the public. The LRMP establishes eight new Conservancies in the Plan Area, which will be managed collaboratively by First Nations and the Province.

The LRMP is implemented by government agencies, both through specific projects and by ensuring development activities in the Plan Area follow the direction provided by the plan. Where appropriate, the LRMP may be implemented through existing policy, or through the establishment of legal objectives or designations under relevant legislation such as the Land Act, Forest and Range Practices Act, or Park (Conservancy Enabling) Amendment Act. The Province and First Nations will continue to work together on implementation of the Sea-to-Sky LRMP.

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Hard copies of the Sea-to-Sky LRMP are also available from the Integrated Land Management Bureau's Surrey office:

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