LAND PLANNING PERSPECTIVE FOR RISK REDUCTION ON STREAMS: “Urban streams are rarely managed as ecological systems or as municipal assets. Rather, they are sliced and diced to suit land development objectives,” Tim Pringle, Chair of the Ecological Accounting Process (EAP)
“When we initiated EAP in 2015, it was almost intuitive to pick up on where things were after a decade of riparian area regulation, and then recognize local governments need a number if they want to get natural assets into their management plans on a regular basis. The question we asked was, how do you find that number? Well, we can treat a stream as a land use because we have RAPR and BC Assessment. The rest of it is the methodology that does the right calculation. EAP finds a financial value for the streamside protection and enhancement area prescribed by RAPR,” stated Tim Pringle.