Yukon Land Use Planning Council

Welcome to Yukon Land Use Planning Council

Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:14

The Yukon Land Use Planning Council helps Government, Yukon First Nations and Regional Planning Commissions coordinate their efforts to conduct regional land use planning. This planning is necessary to resolve land use and resource conflicts within Yukon's regions. The plans ensure that use of lands and resources is consistent with social, cultural, economic and environmental values. These plans will build upon the traditional knowledge and experience of the residents of each region.

Map 1 of the North Yukon Regional Land Use Plan Updated

Tuesday, 31 January 2012 16:17

The Final Recommended North Yukon Use Plan was the last planning document by the North Yukon Planning Commission. Once the Parties (Vuntut Gwitchin and Yukon Governments) made slight modifications and approved it, this plan became the North Yukon Regional Land Use Plan, or the Approved Plan. Therefore, the Parties distribute this version on their site.

As a courtesy to the Parties, the Council assists with updates of this plan, as needed. These updates will be posted in our documents section here.

The first such revision was to update Map #1 which depicts the land use categories. In particular, the areas withdrawn from staking where updated to reflect changes since the Plan was published.

Dawson Planning Conference a Cool Success

Tuesday, 24 January 2012 08:53

About 80 people braved the chilly weather to attend a regional planning conference in Dawson City on January 18th and 19th. This well received conference used a combination of presentations, break-out work groups, and a panel discussion to address the evaluation of trade-offs, frameworks for conservation assessment and economic and social consequences of resource development.

The presentations and a summary of the proceedings are posted here (and soon on the Dawson Regional Planning Commission's website).

Highlights of the Peel Final Recommended Plan

Friday, 16 December 2011 23:43

The Peel Watershed Planning Commission, with the support of the Yukon Land Use Planning Council, released a brochure that describes the highlights of the Final Recommended Peel Watershed Land Use Plan. This brochure is good introduction to the plan, but is not a complete summary. Download it here.

Click here to view the brochure without downloading it.

Southern Yukon Boundary Workshop

Friday, 16 December 2011 15:30

Planning region boundary example map The YLUPC recently hosted a workshop with the twin goals of:

discussing how "pan-regional" issues may be addressed by the three smaller southern Yukon planning regions;
identifying options for the detailed planning boundaries for these regions in southern Yukon.

The workshop was very successful, and brought great technical insight from staff of all key southern Yukon First Nation governments and Yukon Government. Draft maps and other outcomes are posted in our documents section here.

Dawson Regional Issues and Interests

Wednesday, 07 December 2011 10:10

Congratulations to the Dawson Regional Planning Commission for reaching its first major milestone! On December 1st, 2011, it published its Interests and Issues Report. This report summarizes the feedback from Plan Partners (the Yukon and Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in governments), stakeholder organizations and the general public on the Dawson Region land and resource base, and people's relationship to it. The Commission noted that some interests were shared among stakeholders, while others conflicted. Further, the Commission identified four key themes that will be addressed in their regional land use plan:

Mineral exploration and mining
Conservation of fish and wildlife habitat
Defining a "Workable balance" for sustainable development
Land use conflict within the Yukon River corridor

Read what the Commission has to say on their website or in the report itself.

With their planning issues identified, the Commission is now working on their Resource Assessment Report, expected in the summer of 2012. This will report each of the key resources and values in the region.

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