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Plan Area Notices

Plan Eastern Nova is a project to create a Municipal Planning Strategy (MPS) and Land Use Bylaw (LUB) for all areas of the Municipalities of Antigonish, Inverness, Richmond and Victoria Counties that currently do not have planning documents in place. This project will bring these municipalities into compliance with the Provincial mandate that all areas of Nova Scotia have comprehensive land use planning. Check project news at the Plan Eastern Nova website.

Town of Antigonish Plan Area: Notice of Public Hearing

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Town Council intends to consider and, if deemed advisable, amend the Generalized Future Land Use Map in the Municipal Planning Strategy and also approve the Zoning Map amendments in the Land Use By-law which are required to carry out the intent of the concurrent amendments to the municipal planning strategy as follows:

1. Braemore Avenue property (Old school site, PID 10096295) from the Higher Order Residential Neighbourhood Designation to the Community Use Designation and rezone from the Higher Order Residential Neighbourhood (RN-2) Zone to the Institutional (I) Zone.
   Portion of the Braemore Avenue, road right-of-way, PID 10027274, from the Residential Neighbourhood to the Higher Order Residential Neighbourhood Designation and rezone from the Residential Neighbourhood (RN-1) Zone to the Higher Order Residential Neighbourhood (RN-2) Zone.
2. Church Street portions of properties (12, 18, 22, 30 and 40 Church Street and Creighton Lane) from the Residential Neighbourhood Designation to the Mixed-Use Designation and rezone from the Residential Neighbourhood (RN-1) Zone to Downtown Mixed-Use (MU-1) Zone.
3. West Street properties (between and including 14 to 42 West Street as well as the 3.24-hectare SFX University property behind PID 01222025) from the Higher Order Residential Neighbourhood Designation to the Community Use Designation and rezone from the Higher Order Residential Neighbourhood (RN-2) Zone to the Institutional (I) Zone.

Any written or oral presentations (in favour or opposition) to the proposed developments can be made before Council at the Public Hearing to be held: Thursday June 8, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. - in Council Chambers of Town Hall at 274 Main Street, Antigonish

Copies of the staff report providing more information on these proposals can be inspected at the above address of Antigonish Town Hall on business days between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., or at www.edpc.ca.

Isle Madame Plan Area: Notice of Public Hearing

Notice of Public Hearing

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Council of the Municipality of the County of Richmond intends to consider and, if deemed advisable, approve the following amendments:

• Amendments to the Isle Madame Municipal Planning Strategy and Land use By-law to allow for small scale campgrounds and recreational vehicles to be used as seasonal main dwellings or seasonal accessory dwellings as of right within the Rural General (RG) Zone and Rural Resource (RR) zone and to insert accompanying definitions

Written or oral presentations (for or against the proposed) can be made before Municipal Council at a Public Hearing to be held: Tuesday, June 20^th, 2023 at 7:00pm, Council Chambers, 2357 Highway 206, Arichat.

Copies of the staff reports, providing detailed information on the proposals, can be inspected at the website of the Eastern District Planning Commission, www.edpc.ca.

Staff Reports

• Town of Antigonish Plan: Consideration of concurrent amendments to the Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law to allow for low-density residential units in the Institutional (I) Zone.
  Application by A.W Arbuckle & J.L MacInnis to permit an existing institutional use and new residential development at 83 Kirk Street, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, PID 1004224, as amended.
• Town of Antigonish Plan: Concurrent Omnibus mapping amendments to the Generalized Future Land Use Map in the Town of Antigonish Municipal Planning Strategy and to the Zoning Map in the Town of Antigonish Land Use By-law.
• Isle Madame Plan: Amendments to the Isle Madame Municipal Planning Strategy and Land use By-law to allow for small scale campgrounds and recreational vehicles to be used as seasonal main dwellings or seasonal accessory dwellings as of right within the Rural General (RG) Zone and Rural Resource (RR) zone and to insert accompanying definitions.
• Inverness Plan: Request from the Municipality of the County of Inverness to rezone a portion of PID 50180603 (off of MacLean Street, Inverness) from R-1 to O-1.
• West Richmond Plan:
    Proposed amendments to the West Richmond Plan Area Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law to create a Heavy Industrial Restricted (I-4) Zone; to permit Green Energy Facilities in the Heavy Industrial (I-3) zone, and to permit, subject to Special Regulations Green Energy Facilities in the Heavy Industrial Restricted (I-4) Zone, and Watershed Protection Periphery (W-2) Zone; and
    A concurrent amendment to rezone a portion of the property identified by PID 75117671, Old Heavy Water Road, Point Tupper, Richmond County from the Light Industrial (I-1) Zone to the Heavy Industrial Restricted (I-4) Zone
• Chéticamp Plan: Application by Cabot Executive Suites Ltd. to amend the Cheticamp Land Use Bylaw to rezone a portion of PID 50097617 (Ch. de Susanne and Ch. Venette, Chéticamp) from R-1 to R-3.
• Richmond County: Municipal Heritage Property Designation Scoring Criteria
• Inverness Plan: Amendments to the Inverness Secondary Land Use By-law apply the existing undersized lot provisions to lots which do not meet both the minimum lot area and frontage and to allow the construction of accessory structures on existing undersized lots.
• Chéticamp Plan: Application to rezone PIDs 50089127 and 50168004 located on the Cabot Trail, Chéticamp from Commercial General (C-3) to Residential General (R-1) to allow the existing building to be converted into three dwelling units.
• Inverness Plan: Amendments to the Inverness Secondary Plan and Land Use By-law to permit Detached Accessory Dwelling Units in the Residential Urban (R-1) Zone.
• West River Antigonish Harbour Plan: Application by Eric Proctor to amend the Antigonish Land Use By-law by rezoning the property located at PID# 10127124 from Residential (R-1) to Residential Multi-Unit (R-2).
• West River Antigonish Harbour Plan: Development Agreement for a Seniors’ Multi-Unit Apartment Building on Lot 21-2, PID #10134633, Smith Way, Mount Cameron, Antigonish County.
• Central Antigonish Plan: Application to rezone a portion of the property identified by PID 01261379, Monks Head Rd, Pomquet, Antigonish County from the Rural Development (RD-1) Zone to Rural Commercial(RC-1) Zone.