What level of sewer and water services should be provided in cottage areas?
Piped water and sewer systems as in cities are ideals that are literally pipedreams in cottage country. About 25-30 years ago the Provincial government directed that subdivision development could not proceed without a central water system for the subdivision. Most of these have now been dedicated to the Municipality and thus Tiny has come to have the largest number of municipal water systems of any municipality in Ontario! New development should only occur where lot size and character are appropriate to accommodate individual water and sewer systems. That is essentially what the new Tiny OP says, and we support it. 10. How should proposals for major shoreline developments, such as marinas and condominium housing, be treated? They should be treated as any other development proposal in the given urban municipality that wants them and can handle them without adverse impacts on the environment. They should be banned in other areas, such as is the case in Tiny, under its old and new OPs. 11
