Brian Baty, a second-term Niagara regional councillor representing the municipality of Pelham, has been appointed by the province to a two-year-term on the Niagara Escarpment Commission.
Niagara, Ontario regional councillor Brian Baty
Baty, a retired high school principal who services as co-chair on the regional government’s public health and social services committee, will fill a seat on the escarpment watchdog body long occupied by St. Catharines regional councillor Mike Collins, who passed away last year.
Baty’s municipality of Pelham is home to some of the most scenic and environmentally sensitive lands within the Niagara Escarpment zone, including the Fonthill Kame and the Effingham/Short Hills area.
The Niagara Escarpment Commission is an agency of Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and works on behalf of the people of Ontario to preserve the Niagara Escarpment as a continuous natural landscape and a vital corridor of green space that stretches through south-central Ontario and extends in to New York State at Lewiston.
The commission outlines land use designations, development criteria and related uses including farming, forestry and mineral resource extraction. It also provides the framework for a string of more than 130 existing and proposed parks and open spaces linked by the Bruce Trail, Canada’s oldest and longest continuous footpath.
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