Post-Earthquake Boundary Restoration
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Overview
Dates: March 21 to April 21
Who: The Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship
What: Exploring approaches to enable re-establishment of parcel boundaries, if necessary, following a significant earthquake
Where: Province-wide
Why: An invitation to engage and comment on the policy approaches to ensure the opportunity to understand the options and influence the outcomes
How: Online
Engagement summary
Earthquakes occur regularly in B.C., but most do not significantly impact people. However, it is widely accepted that a major earthquare capable of causing extensive damage is inevitable. Currently, B.C. does not have a way to address the potential movement of property boundaries that could result from such an earthquake.
The Province is exploring approaches to reinstating parcel boundaries, if necessary, after a significant earthquake. The goal is to ensure that parcel boundaries can be re-established in a consistent manner. This will support the recovery of the province after a major earthquake event.
Read the Intentions Paper (PDF, 800KB)
Written submissions
Submissions are open for First Nations, the public, associations, businesses, local and federal governments, and other organizations to submit a formal response to the intentions paper. Submissions will be accepted until April 21, 2025.
Written submissions should be in a Word or PDF format and be sent to WLRS.ProposalEngagement@gov.bc.ca. Please limit your response to 2 pages and focus on the following questions:
- Do you have any questions about what is proposed?
- Do you support this proposal?
Guidelines
Submissions must meet the following criteria:
- Does not contain profanity or content that is defamatory, threatening, hateful, personally disparaging, harassing, indecent, vulgar, obscene, illegal, immoral or sexually explicit (partially masking profanity or other unacceptable language by substituting asterisks or other symbols into a word is not acceptable if the word remains recognizable)
- Does not appear to, or infringe the copyright, trademark, right of privacy, right of publicity or any other intellectual property or other proprietary right of any third party
- Does not contain information about, or images (e.g., photographs, videos or illustrations) of, any person other than the person submitting the content
- Does not advertise any product, person or organization, or direct attention to another website for personal gain
- Does not provide links to, or information about, other sites that contain unlawful, objectionable or inappropriate content
- Does not make unproven or unsupported accusations against individuals, groups or organizations
- Does not appear to be spam-like messaging, a repeat posting or a template letter writing campaign
- Is not far off-topic
The Province wants to know your thoughts on this proposal. This information will help ensure the path forward is informed by a range of perspectives and solutions. As part of this process, your personal information is collected under section 26(e) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act for the purposes of evaluating and improving the Post-Earthquake Boundary Restoration proposal. If you have any questions about the collection of your information, please contact the Program Area staff at WLRS.ProposalEngagement@gov.bc.ca.
All formal submissions that meet the above guidelines will be read and considered as part of an engagement summary report and may be published along with the report.
How your contribution makes a difference
Feedback on the intentions paper will be considered to inform options.
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