Water, Water Everywhere!
When water covers land that is usually dry, this event is called a ________.
What is a flood?
This document shows the long-term big-picture ideas for how the community should grow.
What is a Community Plan?
The wearing away of the riverbank (or land loss) caused by water and ice.
What is erosion?
This rulebook says what kinds of buildings and activities are allowed on each piece of land.
What is a zoning bylaw?
Parks, playgrounds, and gathering places are all examples of this kind of land use.
What is community/recreation use?
This type of map shows which areas might fill with water during a major event during spring breakup.
What is a flood map?
A Community Plan includes these guiding statements that describe what the community wants to become in the future.
What is a vision statement?
The line on the map that shows where buildings must stay back from the riverbank is called the riverbank ______ line.
What is the setback line?
A zoning bylaw sometimes restricts this aspect of a building to limit the spread of fire and to ensure it isn't too tall of an eyesore.
What is height?
Community Plans aren’t made by Planners alone — they require ideas from these important people.
What are community members / residents?
In Fort Good Hope, flooding is often caused by this spring break-up phenomenon on the Dehcho.
What is an ice jam?
The purpose of a this plan is to provide a policy framework to guide the physical development of a municipality, while considering sustainability, the environment, and the economic, social and cultural development of the community.
What is a Community Plan.
These natural features — like trees and shrubs — help keep the riverbank strong.
What is vegetation?
A guideline in a zoning bylaw that instructs how close or far away from the front, sides and back of a property a building needs to be.
What is a lot line setback?
An area that permits this type of use is encouraging the development of buildings like band office, health centres, or schools.
What is an institutional use?
People living in flood-risk areas and in unstable areas along the river bank should be prepared to do this quickly if water rises above normal levels.
What is evacuate?
When we plan for future homes, roads, parks, and businesses, we are planning for this.
What is land use?
Residents can identify areas of instability on their properties if they see this long line on the ground that indicates movement of the soil.
What is a tension crack?
A rule in a zoning bylaw that limits how big of a property can be created for a single structure.
What is a maximum property (or lot) size?
When a neighbourhood decides which activities and building types belong there — such as homes, stores, or cultural spaces — they are deciding this.
What are permitted land uses?
This term describes land that stays natural to help store or absorb water or to minimize erosion.
What is an environmental protection area?
The GNWT Community Planning and Development Act outlines how this Government has authority to make the rules about community planning and development.
What is the local government (or City, Town, Hamlet, Village or Charter Community)?
One sign of an unstable bank is when the ground suddenly shifts downward. This is called a small ________.
What is a slump?
Some zones allow homes, but only if they follow special conditions. These are called _______ uses.
What are conditional (or discretionary) uses?
A neighbourhood with safe ways to walk, bike, or play is said to have good _______.
What is connectivity?