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 application and permitting processes see below.
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 River Antigonish Harbour Plan
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Council of the Municipality of the County of Antigonish intends to consider and, if deemed advisable, approve:
- Amendments to the Residential (R-1) Zone to increase the maximum height for senior citizen housing and institutional uses in the West River Antigonish Harbour Land Use By-law.
Copies of the Staff Reports, providing more detailed information on the proposed amendments, can be inspected at the Municipal Office of Antigonish County (285 Beech Hill) or at the office of the Eastern District Planning Commission (606 Reeves Street, Unit 3, Port Hawkesbury) between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 pm weekdays (excluding statutory holidays), on the Eastern District Planning Commission website www.edpc.ca, or by contacting Toll Free 1-888-625-5361.
Any written or oral presentations (in favour or opposition) to the proposed recommendations can be made before Municipal Council at a Public Hearing to be held on: Tuesday April 9th, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. Council Chambers, 285 Beech Hill Road, Antigonish County
Staff Reports
West River Antigonish Harbour Plan
| Amendments to the Residential (R-1) Zone to increase the maximum height for senior citizen housing and institutional uses in the West River Antigonish Harbour Land Use By-law. View Document |
| Application by the Antigonish Affordable Housing Society (AAHS) to enter into a Development Agreement for three (3) Multi-unit Apartment Buildings providing a total of seventeen (17) Units on Lot 2A, PID 10079572, Appleseed Drive, Post Road View Document |
Central Richmond Plan
| Amendments to the Central Richmond Secondary Plan and Land Use By-law to allow former institutional buildings to be converted into dwelling units. View Document |
Inverness Plan
| County of Inverness Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law Concerning the Regulation of Wind Turbine Development – Long Term Policy Options. View Document |
| County of Inverness Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law Concerning the Regulation of Wind Turbine Development – Policy Recommendations. View Document |
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County of Inverness Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law Concerning the Regulation of Wind Turbine Development – Policy Review. View Document |
| 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. View Document |
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. View Document |
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. View Document |