Uses requiring permits

increased or decreased ground elevation
road and driveway crossings and/or movement of vehicles and equipment across, on, or along the right of way (temporary or permanent)
logging roads (temporary or permanent) and/or logging activities
utilities (underground and overhead)
ditches, drains, sanitary and storm sewers, irrigation lines, water lines and dikes
test holes
fences and posts (subject to individual review)
Christmas tree or commercial tree farming
parking lots
railways
parking commercial or recreational vehicles
sports fields or golf courses (subject to limits on regrading landscaping, irrigation lines or paving, and on installation of structures such as goal posts and backstops)
trails (subject to individual review)
blasting in the vicinity of a transmission pipeline
preloading adjacent to right of way
stockpiling material adjacent to right of way

planting flower beds, vegetable gardens, lawns, low shrubbery (under 1.8m at maturity and not to be planted within 1m of pipeline) and normal farming
livestock grazing

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