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ings, and which the Department, having regard to the nature 

 and situation of the land affected by the provisions, considers 

 reasonable for the purpose of amenity and proper hygienic condi- 

 tions. 



7. Preparation of Partial Development Schemes. — Under 

 an Act local authorities or their development boards should have the 

 option of preparing complete schemes, but in order to secure some 

 kind of uniformity and to prevent friction by the adjacent munici- 

 palities, it is desirable that the Act should make it compulsory for 

 all authorities or boards to prepare a partial development scheme.* 

 This partial scheme would be simple in its provisions and not require 

 the preparation of any elaborate provisions or map. Its object would 

 be to generally classify the land and lay down certain principles to 

 guide development. By this means a certain standard of develop- 

 ment could be fixed as the minimum. The fact that this is proposed 

 to be compulsory does not mean that the local authority is tied down 

 with regard to the details of the scheme or is compelled to undertake 

 its preparation at considerable cost. The authority would prepare its 

 own scheme and limit its expenditure to the trifling cost of prepara- 

 tion. The latter could be reduced to a minimum by the provincial 

 department preparing a model set of provisions for a partial scheme. 



8. Revoking or Altering a Scheme. — When a scheme is 

 deliberately prepared by the local authority and has been approved 

 by the provincial department it should take effect as if it were part 

 of the Act and only be altered or revoked by a subsequent scheme. 

 This is necessary to protect interested parties from having changes 

 made without sufficient reason. 



9. Area of a Scheme. — No definite area should be prescribed 

 for a scheme in an Act and the local authority should be permitted to 

 include land outside its own boundaries, if, after hearing objections 

 from the adjoining authority, the provincial department decides to 

 permit the inclusion of such land. 



10. Provision of Expenses. — The cost of preparing a scheme 

 should be limited to a certain percentage of the assessable value of the 

 district. In regard to all expenditure the local authority should have the 

 determining voice whether or not it delegates its power of executing a 

 scheme to a development board. 



11. Procedure Regulations. — The rules of procedure should 

 be drawn up by the provincial department. 



12. Expropriation of Land. — The usual powers connected 



* In the Nova Scotia Act the "partial development scheme" is designated "a 

 set of town planning by-laws." 



