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Special management zones protect specific values through broad conditions while allowing development to proceed. All other areas are considered “general use”, where development may proceed subject to existing regulatory requirements. In the absence of land use plans, these zoning decisions are transferred to other parts of the regulatory system, such as environmental assessment and permitting—and Richard is part of that regime, the environmental review board—that were not designed to answer such questions. As a result, without a land use plan in place, in our view the whole system bogs down.
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