P.A. MILLER SURVEYING LTD
Ontario Land Surveyors · Canada Lands Surveyors
Reliable, High Quality Surveying Services
On time and on budget since 1980!
Shore Road Allowance Closure and Sale
Providing reliable, high quality legal survey services, on time and on budget in Eastern Ontario, since 1980.
In much of cottage country, private “waterfront” properties may not actually extend to the lake. Often there is a 20 metre (66 foot) strip of land immediately next to the lake that is known as a Shore Road Allowance (SRA). These SRA’s are often owned by the local Municipality or Township. These Original Shore Road Allowances (OSRA) were created between the 1850s and 1870s when these Townships were first surveyed under Instructions from the provincial government. In some cases where lakes were dammed after the original Township Surveys, these OSRAs may now be partially or totally submerged.
Many Municipalities are agreeable to selling these Allowances for Road to the upland private property owners, but typically only convey the dry land portions. Prior to selling, the Public interest in these Allowances (after all, they are “Roads”!) must be removed by bylaw.
The growth in “Cottage Country” accelerated in the post war years. The Department of Lands and Forests (now the Ministry of Natural Resources) was responsible for creating many new lots, often with Allowances for Road adjacent to the waterfront. In the case of a flooded lake, this at times had the effect of creating a second, possibly overlapping, Road Allowance.
In some instances ther may also be a strip of Crown land betweeen the upland parcel and OSRA.
Our firm has thousands of records of surveys along lakes in cottage country. We have researched many controlled lakes and have established original lake elevations for many of these flooded lakes.
Parallel red and black line bordering Tallans Lake marks 20.12 m SRA on original Crown Plan – Chandos Township, municipal Township of North Kawartha
Peterborough County
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