Long-term land use planning is wise and progressive. A comprehensive provincial. Land Use Framework is vital to the future of all Albertans and the fu...
THE ALBERTA PARTY BELIEVES THAT: Long-term land use planning is wise and progressive. A comprehensive provincial Land Use Framework is vital to the future of all Albertans and the future economic success of rural and urban Alberta communities including Métis and First Nations; AND Albertans must be included in meaningful dialogue with regard to land use planning both prior to the crafting of legislation and during the regional planning process; The property rights of Alberta landowners are important; The province is a unit, made up of several regions, and that the decisions around land use in one region may have significant impacts in other regions; Albertans want and deserve open, transparent planning and decision making, and that they expect ALL elected representatives— not just cabinet—to make decisions on their behalf.
The Alberta Party will repeal the Alberta Land Stewardship Act (ALSA, Bill 36); AND Introduce a new Land Use Planning Act that will: • Recognize the legitimate rights of landowners to steward their land;AND • Ensure all final submissions of regional and sub-regional land use plans under the Land Use Framework are debated and approved by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta; AND • Ensure that expropriations are justified before an independent and uninterested* tribunal that is without
a personal, corporate or institutional interest; AND • Establish parameters for the tribunal that give it the capacity and the responsibility to award fair compensation and to set aside the process for any significant failure on the part of the expropriating authority; • Ensure that expropriation justification demonstrates, with evidence • a genuine and urgent public need, • a clear understanding of the ecological implications of immediate and ulti mate activity, both negative and positive, • the needs and traditional values of aboriginal communities • that all groups affected by an expropriation have been included in the consultation process • that there is no private benefit derived directly from the expropriation. • that the entire process is transparent to the public; AND Engage in regional land planning over a period of time, but reserve final decisions until all interactions, potential conflicts and competing land use issues between regions found in the draft plans has been reviewed, assessed and mitigated. The Alberta Party will repeal the Land Assembly Project Area Act (Bill 19) to ensure that there are no legislative or regulatory allowances to “freeze” the sale or use of land for fixed or indeterminate periods of time * uninterested means “without a financial or political interest in the outcome of the proceedings”