housing and facilitate compact form, while maintaining appropriate levels of public health and safety.
1.6 Infrastructure and Public Service Facilities
1.6.6 Sewage, Water and Stormwater
1.6.6.1	Planning for sewage and water services shall: b) ensure that these systems are provided in a manner that: 3. protects human health and the natural environment;
1.6.6.2	Municipal sewage services and municipal water services are the preferred form of servicing for settlement areas. Intensification and redevelopment within settlement areas on existing municipal sewage services and municipal water services should be promoted, wherever feasible.
1.6.6.7	Planning for stormwater management shall: a) minimize, or, where possible, prevent increases in contaminant loads; b) minimize changes in water balance and erosion; c) not increase risks to human health and safety and property damage; d) maximize the extent and function of vegetative and pervious surfaces; and e) promote stormwater management best practices, including stormwater attenuation and re-use, and low impact development.
1.6.7 Transportation Systems
1.6.7.4	A land use pattern, density and mix of uses should be promoted that minimize the length and number of vehicle trips and support current and future use of transit and active transportation.
1.6.7.5	Transportation and land use considerations shall be integrated at all stages of the planning process.
3.0 Protecting Public Health and Safety
Preamble	Ontario's long-term prosperity, environmental health and social well-being depend on reducing the potential for public cost or risk to Ontario’s residents from natural or human-made hazards. Development shall be directed away from areas of natural or human-made hazards where there is an unacceptable risk to public health or safety or of property damage, and not create new or aggravate existing hazards.
3.1 Natural Hazards
3.1.2	Development and site alteration shall not be permitted within: a) the dynamic beach hazard; b) defined portions of the flooding hazard along connecting channels (the St. Marys, St. Clair, Detroit, Niagara and St. Lawrence Rivers); c) areas that would be rendered inaccessible to people and vehicles during times of flooding hazards, erosion hazards and/or dynamic beach hazards, unless it has been demonstrated that the site has safe access appropriate for the nature of the development and the natural hazard; and d) a floodway regardless of whether the area of inundation contains high points of land not subject to flooding.