Municipal Action Plan
Our Municipal Action Plan empowers residents and municipal Councils to work together to strengthen protections from gravel mining in their communities.
Many Ontario municipalities have twenty-year-old gravel mining policies that are no longer adequate to address the realities of diminished air quality and accelerated climate change. We are helping municipalities to review and improve these policies using a common planning tool called the Interim Control Bylaw (ICBL).
You'll find a step-by-step guide to this process, including a case study and ready-made resources, in our handbook: "The High Road: A Municipal Action Plan to Win a New Standard for Gravel Mining in Ontario."
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How Caledon Reformed Gravel Mining—
And Your Municipality Can, Too
In 2023 - 2024, the Town of Caledon became the first municipality to successfully use the strategy laid out in the Municipal Action Plan to approve some of the best aggregate policies in the province. Most notably—and in what is believed to be a first in Canada—Caledon adopted the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2021 global air quality standards for particulate matter (PM 2.5), a known carcinogen found in the dust from aggregate mines.