Municipal Land Use Suitability Tool (MLUST) for Municipal District of

Removal of No-Go Areas and Settlement and Infrastructure from the land base resulted in 33% (wind) and 28% (solar) of the landscape identified as suitable for renewable MUNICIPAL LAND USE SUITABILITY TOOL REPORT– MUNICIPAL DISTRICT OF PINCHER CREEK 6 energy development. [...] Improvements included expansion of the tool to consider other development types, clarity on function of feature within each theme, addition of a new settlement and infrastructure theme, adjustment of the engagement process to reduce time and focus on municipal council and staff and rebranding of the LCL decision support process and tool to MLUST. [...] Conflict Probability Rating values were converted into a MUNICIPAL LAND USE SUITABILITY TOOL REPORT– MUNICIPAL DISTRICT OF PINCHER CREEK 33 range of 10 possible colours on a gradient, with the palest colour indicating a rating in the lowest 10%, and the darkest colour indicating a rating in the highest 10%. [...] Conflict Probability Rating values were converted into a MUNICIPAL LAND USE SUITABILITY TOOL REPORT– MUNICIPAL DISTRICT OF PINCHER CREEK 36 range of 10 possible colours on a gradient, with the palest colour indicating a rating in the lowest 10%, and the darkest colour indicating a rating in the highest 10%. [...] To determine the Wind and Solar Energy Development Suitability Areas we used the inverse of the Combined Conflict Probability Rating Map to identify Wind and Solar Energy Development Suitability Areas (Figure 20 and Figure 24).