Chapter II – Protection of particular places and territories
Division I – General
§3 – Visual setting

Section 12

A visual setting of 1.5 km must be preserved along tourist circuits or routes and around the following places and territories:

a rest area;
a public beach;
a dock site with a boat ramp when it includes in its service areas restaurant and accommodation facilities;
a proposed site or place, referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 and indicated in the regional plan for the development of the public territory – recreation and tourism sector – or in a regional plan for integrated land and resource development;
a heritage site declared by the Government under the Cultural Heritage Act
(chapter P-9.002).

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Objectives

To maintain landscape quality
To reconcile the various activities that take place in the forest
To contribute to the quality of the experience in the forest
To reconcile forest development activities with the protection of the cultural heritage

Additional information

The regional plan for public land development This link opens a new window is intended to establish, in conjunction with regional stakeholders, where, when and how land rights may be issued in order to ensure harmonization of public land use.

Heritage sites are listed in the (French website only) Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec This link opens a new window (Directory of Cultural Heritage).

The following guide (in French only) contains details of good landscape quality maintenance practices:

Stratégie d’aménagement pour l’intégration visuelle des coupes dans les paysages This link opens a new window

Figure 12A Visual setting around a public beach