Property Addressing
Background of Rural Property Addressing Within Grey County
The property addressing system was created to facilitate the implementation of County-wide 9-1-1 PERS (Public Emergency Reporting Service); and to deliver an accurate method of property identification within the rural areas of the County of Grey. Difficulties have often been encountered by emergency services trying to locate rural properties by using lot and concession descriptions or elaborate directions that usually require familiarity with the area.
The property addressing system provides a method of property identifications. Any past confusion experienced when explaining lot and concession numbers is virtually non-existent with the property addressing system. However, the use of lot and concession property description will not be eliminated. The legal description of properties will continue to be used for Land Registry purposes and any other legal application where the location of a rural property is required.
In emergency situations, people are often unable to accurately describe where their rural property is located and how an emergency vehicle can find them because of their heightened level of anxiety and the pressure of the situation. With enhanced 9-1-1 and the property addressing system in place in Grey County, it does not matter if a 9-1-1 caller is incomprehensible, or if the caller simply doesn’t know the location from which the call is being made. Likewise, callers such as small children who cannot describe their locations or callers who are cut off due to problems with the telephone lines will automatically have the location of their calls relayed to the call taker at the Owen Sound Police Services Board as part of the Enhanced 9-1-1 System.
Intersection and Property Signs
Property Addresses / Road & Section Numbers
Policies for Types of Properties
