Not mentioned are the non…

Not mentioned are the non-evaluated wetland mapping and boundaries. These are usually incorrect, mapped boundaries too far from an actual wetland or no wetland exists at all. Is there going to be a new process or more evaluations completed to update these non-evaluated wetlands that have been mapped? This more of an issue when obtaining a permit to build than the actual evaluated mapped wetland.

Many homeowners/landowners are subject to these non-evaluated wetlands that have been mapped on our property and have no cost-effective way to correct this issue. Proper wetland evaluations are extremely expensive (not affordable) or not possible to complete (wetland mapped over multiple private properties). It would be nice to have a system/program in place to have these problems corrected or remapped to show correctly for wetlands and help landowners on costs and obtain minor/major building permits.

At the current state with municipalities and conservation authorities the use of these non-evaluated wetland maps are excessively used during the permitting process and it does not matter if it's a non-evaluated status, they treated as a wetland and no permits can be obtained, even though a wetland may not even exist.

We need more non-evaluated wetlands evaluation options or ministry staff to start ground truthing/evaluating the current non-evaluated wetlands that have been mapped and updated to actually know the true state and number of wetlands out there, so people can build.

Thank you