Section 2a - Location and Property
Location and Property Data
(Where is the design site Located?)
Address: (Often the easiest way to pinpoint the location)
Street: Westcock Hill Road
City/Suburb: Johnson Mills
Province: New Brunswick
Postal Code:
Country: Canada
PID: 70061767, 00902841
Latitude: 45.84161 N
Longitude: -64.48943 W
What is the size of the property? 78.98 Hectares.
Where is the nearest mountain or range? (Provide the distance to and name of the mountain or range of mountains. Specifiy units as miles or kilometers.
Caledonia Mountain. 15 kilometers to the West.
What is the distance from the ocean (East and or West coast)? (Provide the distance to and name of the body of water. After providing details for the nearest ocean, if another large body of water is closer and may have an orographic effect on the site, provide those details as well. Specify units as miles or kilometers.)
The Inner Bay of Fundy (Shepody Bay) is located 2.5 kilometers to the west. The Chignecto Bay is located 7 kilometers to the east. The Northumberland Strait is located 44 kilometers to the north. The Atlantic Ocean proper is located is located 165 kilometers to the Southeast at Halifax, NS.
What is the distance to the nearest population centre? (For the very rural, this may be the nearest village. For the village, it might be the closest larger town. For the town, it may be the nearest city. Specify units as miles or kilometers).
Sackville, NB is an 11 kilometer drive to the northeast. Fort Folly First Nation/Dorchester is an 11 kilometer drive to the north. Amherst is a 31 kilometer drive to the east. Greater Moncton (the largest population centre in the list) is a 52.5 kilometer drive to the nearest Costco.
What is the previous property use history?
This can be a list of events and dates, such as: House built in 1982, barn built 1990, area became widely settled in 1920, area heavily logged 1800s, etc. Or it may be an explanation of different previous uses and relative dates.
During the 19th century, the properties on this peninsula were harvested to supply timber to the shipbuilding industry in the region. Although specific species of trees are not easy to determine, the region is likely to have hosted a large white pine forest. Although no white pine was detected on the property, many untouched riparian zones in the region along the nearby Memramcook river are host to white pine.
Over the years, this property has been harvested several times, most recently around the turn of this century as a spruce/fir clearcut. It is currently scrubland with patches of spruce and fir regrowth estimated to be not much more than a decade in age.
There may have been a small settlement near to or on this land in the late 19th century, as a church was located nearby and some stories of a small village existing along the Westcock Hill Road between Westcock and Johnson's Mills. There is no visible evidence of this village remaining.
What is the property currently used for?
Very general but open ended here. Suburban home, farmhouse and surrounding crops (list crops/method for context), woodlot, wild space, native prairie, regrowth forest, etc.
The property is currently unmanaged woodland, recently clearcut.
Boundary and Contour Map Guidelines
Files should be in JPEG format and ideally less than 4MB in size.
Boundary Map
This image should clearly illustrate the boundaries of the site in proper orientation and useful scale.
As part of making this map a useful tool the aspect (compass rose) and scale (a depiction of distance relative to the image) are required as well.
On this map, often less is more. Extra data clogging up the map may make it harder to see and read pertinent details. When in doubt, if things begin to look too cluttered, leave the boundary map clear and create a second map with the extra details for your reference. This map could be presented with no details bu the boundary, compass rose, and scale. Consider carefully before adding details which will appear on other maps, most often, they are not helpful on this map.
Possible exceptions to this rule that may be helpful to include are:
Public roadways (not private tracks and internal paths) with names and labels, especially when these abut a site boundary.
Labelling and showing large water (a big pond, lake, or river) if it is in or near the site.
Specific point data (i.e., the point where utilities enter the property) denoted with a dot and label only.
Where it is known that buried electric, or plumbing enters the property. (leave off suspected or fuzzy data until it can be refined.)
Where it is known that power lines (or other utility easements) enter the property, especially those that are quite large or may come along with restrictions which will affect the design.
Do not include:
Contour data (that's the next map)
Site design details (they have their own subsequent maps)
Anything that makes it harder to read, find, or see, the requested details for this map listed above.
This map is required. It should be unique and different from your other maps, and therefore not a duplicate of any other map file submitted.
You may upload up to 2 files in this section of the online submission form.
Contour Map
This image should clearly illustrate the elevation and topographic details for the site.
As part of making this map a useful tool, labels on some, if not all, of the contours should provide elevations so we can determine at a glance uphill versus downhill orientation.
Likewise a note indicating the elevation difference between each contour line is required, so that we know precisely what was measured. This is part of the scale or legend for all topographic, or contour maps.
On this map, there will be so much visual data just from the contour lines that anything extra cannot help but make it harder to use. Even so it is recommended that you overlay the property boundary over the contours so that it is clear how the scale of the contour map aligns with your other map, and so we can see how the slope and the site fit together.
This map is required. It should be unique and different from your other maps, and therefore not a duplicate of any other map file submitted.
You may upload up to 3 files in this section of the online submission form.
