The Eastern District Planning Commission provides planning, subdivision and building inspection services in eastern Nova Scotia for the Counties of Antigonish, Inverness, Richmond, and Victoria and the Towns of Port Hawkesbury and Antigonish. The planners, development officers, building inspectors and support staff work toward developing a safe and healthy community for you and your family. For more information on the services offered by the EDPC Please see here .

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.

West Richmond Plan Area: 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:

1. Amendments to the Richmond County Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law Addressing the Development of Wind Energy to allow the creation of the Utility Scale Wind Development (WD-2) Zone which permits Utility Scale Wind Turbines as of right subject to special requirements and the rezoning map shown in Schedule A

Written or oral presentations (for or against the proposed) can be made before Municipal Council at a Public Hearing to be held: Monday September 25^th, 2023 at 6:30 p.m. Council Chambers 2357 Highway 206, Arichat, Richmond County. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Copies of the Staff Reports can be inspected at The Municipal Office, the Eastern District Planning Commission office (606 Reeves Street, Unit 3, Port Hawkesbury) between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30p.m. weekdays (excluding holidays) or on the Eastern District Planning Commission website www.edpc.ca.

Staff Reports

• Inverness Plan: County of Inverness Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law Concerning the Regulation of Wind Turbine Development – Long Term Policy Options
• Inverness Plan: County of Inverness Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law Concerning the Regulation of Wind Turbine Development – Policy Recommendations
• Inverness Plan: County of Inverness Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law Concerning the Regulation of Wind Turbine Development – Policy Review.
• 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