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513 Requirement To Provide Land For New Highway Or Widening Existing Highway

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513 (1) An approving officer may require that the owner of the land being subdivided provide, without compensation, a portion of that land for highway use as referred to in subsection (2).

  • (2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), the land required under this section must not be greater than the following:
  • (a) for a highway within the subdivision, 20 metres in depth;
  • (b) for widening an existing local highway that borders or is within the subdivision, the lesser of
    • (i) 10 metres in depth, and
    • (ii) the difference between the current width of a local highway and 20 metres.
  • (3) If the approving officer considers that, due to terrain and soil conditions, a roadway of a width of 8 metres cannot, within the 20-metre limit referred to in subsection (2), be adequately supported, protected or drained, the approving officer may determine that the owner provide, without compensation, land of a greater width than that referred to in subsection (2)(a) or (b) that, in the approving officer’s opinion, would permit the local highway to be supported, protected or drained.
  • (4) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations specifying a different amount of land under subsection (2) or (3) for different local governments and different classes of local governments.

1985-79-8; 1987-14-51; RSBC 2015-1-513, effective January 1, 2016 (B.C. Reg. 257/2015); 2024-11-18.