Crown Lands Division

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Branch Mandate

• Comprehensive management of the provincial land
  resource by administering Crown titles land use
  planning and support services in geomatics.

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Branch Organization

• Comprises 3 Divisions
• Crown Lands. (Crown titles)
• Surveys and Mapping. (Geomatic Services)
• Land Management. (Land Use Planning)
• Staffing compliment of 88.

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Branch Profile

• Long standing history, since 1824 one of the
  oldest branch in government.
• Regionalized since 1976
• 4 regional offices (St. Johns, Gander, Corner
  Brook Happy Valley-Goose Bay).
• 1 sub-regional office (Clarenville).
• Head Office (Howley Bldg.)

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Crown Lands Division (Key Functions)

• Allocation of Crown land
• 2500-3000 applications/year
• 1700 Crown titles/year
• Crown titles preparation, mapping and GIS

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Crown Lands Division (Key Functions)

• Registration of Crown titles and records
• gt70,000 titles administered
• Defending Crowns interest in Crown land

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Crown Lands Division(Key Functions)

• Sale of air photos, maps and related land
  information.

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Crown Lands Division (Key Issues)

• Addressing unauthorized land activities.
• Implementation of real-time GIS.
• On-line Public access to Crown title mapping, and
  related information.
• Reducing times for processing applications for
  Crown titles and responding to complaints.

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Surveys Mapping Division

• Mission
• Provincial agency providing geo-spatial products
  and support services to government, industry and
  the public.
• Lines of Business
• Topographic Mapping
• Geodetic Surveys
• Aerial Photography
• Geographical Names
• Geomatic Support Services

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Topographic Mapping

• Provincial version of federal maps
• - 150,000 1250,000 scales, complete coverage
• - Current web mapping access
• Rectified Aerial Photography
• -110,000 scale, 20 of Island of Nfld.
• - Includes Water Contour lines
• - Planned web mapping access
• Community Mapping
• - mostly 12,500 some 15,000 scales
• - Less than 5 of Island of Nfld
• - Most towns mapped, but many out-of-date
• - Partial web mapping access

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Geodetic Surveys

• Positional reference points for legal surveys,
  topographic mapping and engineering surveys.
• Photo Control for topographic mapping
• 8,000 points established over 30 years.

Aerial Photography

• Provincial repository of original film
• Reprinting enlargement services
• New high precision scanning services

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Geographical Names

• Administers the NL Geographical Names Board
• Legislative authority to name places features.
• Collaborates with Geographical Names Board of
  Canada
• Maintains data base of 36,000 records

Geomatic Support Services

• Maintains central datastore of base maps
• Collaborates with the Canadian Council On
  Geomatics (CCOG) in building the Canadian
  Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI)
• Fosters the Provincial Geomatics Strategy
• Implements web mapping services.

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Current SMD Partnerships

• Annual maintenance of road data for 5 years
• National GeoBase on Roads
• Collaboration on water feature mapping
• National GeoBase on Drainage
• Coastal mapping of Northern Labrador
• 4 Year Project
• Canadian Hydrographic Service, Parks Canada,
  Labrador Inuit Assoc.
• Ortho image mapping in North/Central Nfld
• Newfoundland Forest Training Association (et al)
• Community Mapping
• Highways, Several Municipalities
• Highway Strip Mapping
• For design on new Labrador Highways

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Land Management Division

• Key Functions
• Develops and co-ordinates land use management
  plans
• Develops and co-ordinates land use policies
• Identifies, plans and develops recreational
  cottage lot areas
• Staffing compliment of 9.

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Land Management Division

• 3 Core Programs
• Market Value Pricing for Crown Land Applications
• Cottage Planning and Allocation
• Land Use Policy/Legislation/Resource Management
  Coordination (ILUC)

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Land Management Division

• Cottage Lot Development 2005
• Pinchgut Lake (W) 18 lots
• Big Eel Lake (C) 20 lots
• Windmill Bight-Lumsden (C) 12 lots
• Spread Eagle-Old Shop (E) 18 lots

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Bull Pond Cottage Area42 lots allocated in 2004
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