Organizing the Process

Lake Planning Schedule – Provides a detailed schedule of your planning process and identifies tasks to be completed.

Lake Plan Presentations – From simple 10 minute overviews to comprehensive POWER POINT presentations, these templates are available to help you to increase awareness of your lake planning initiative.

Volunteer Work List – This sign up sheet is to be provided at your AGM or in a newsletter to determine what kind of talents or resources your volunteers have to offer as well as provide a list of simple tasks that people can sign up for.

Detailed Work List – From preparing surveys to collecting water quality data, this work list provides 36 tasks for volunteers to undertake.

Writing Your Plan

Vision Quest – A simple three-step exercise to help you to prepare a future vision for your lake.

Lake Plan Framework – This document provides you with a sample table of contents together with instructions on where to find information and how to write sections of your lake plan.

ExecutiveSummary – The Executive Summary is intended for distribution to all property owners and participants to highlight the process, key findings and recommendations.

Collecting Background Information

 The Development Game – In this interactive game you play the role of the developer and will be challenged to develop your lake to “the max” according to the current land use policies. This exercise will help you to review and make recommendations on your official plan and zoning by-law.

Residential and Commercial Property Owner Surveys and Survey Summaries – This template will provide questions for you to consider in the preparation of your survey.

WorkshopsandWorkshopProceedings– Agendas, discussion questions and summary reports are available for residential, stakeholders, special interests and strategic planning workshops.

Guideline for Reviewing Land Use Issues – This guideline provides a series of steps for you to analyze the effectiveness of your Official Plan in relation to current lake issues.

Shoreline Vegetation Inventory – This inventory describes how to complete a survey of the vegetation in the littoral, riparian and upland areas along your shoreline.

Shoreline Infrastructure Inventory – This inventory describes how to complete a survey of all the docks, boathouses and other infrastructure located along the shoreline.

Boat Traffic Inventory – This inventory provides a systematic approach to assess the boating capacity of your lake.

Mapping Information

Map the Viewscape Boundary – A very simple process to help you to map the area that can be seen from any point on your lake.

Map the Watershed Boundary – With the use of a topographical map, this simple process will help you to identify all streams and rivers that flow into and out of your lake.

Map the Steep Slopes and Narrow Waterbodies – A simple process to identify land use constraints such as steep slopes and narrow waterbodies