PROJECT NEWS

Council Approves New Documents

2024.06.12

On June 11, Council for the Municipality of the County of Antigonish gave Second Reading to (approved) the proposed Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law. These documents have been submitted to the Province for review. If there are no issues with the documents, they will go into effect the day a notice is placed in a local newspaper. Click to view the approved Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law.

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Engagement for Antigonish project is now complete and Council has adopted the new documents. If you have questions, please contact the Eastern District Planning Commission (www.edpc.ca).

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Plan Antigonish is a project to create a Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law for all areas of the Municipality of the County of Antigonish. In 2018, the Provincial Government passed Bill 58, an amendment to the Municipal Government Act that requires every municipality to develop and adopt planning. Currently, the Municipality of the County of Antigonish has four different plan areas and one plan related to large-scale wind turbines, but there remain areas that are unplanned.

This project focuses on developing planning documents for those parts of the Municipality that currently have no planning in place.

Want to learn a bit more about the project and its goals? The video below gives an overview of the project, as well as some information about planning in Nova Scotia more generally.

PROJECT ARCHIVE

Existing Planning Documents

What We Heard: Draft Engagement (Winter 2023/2024)

What We Heard: Initial Engagement Summary (Winter 2022)

Take a read through the initial engagement summary for Plan Antigonish and see what issues were top of mind for people in the Municipality. The feedback collected throughout this process informed the Draft Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use Bylaw.

First Drafts of Plan Antigonish County Documents (from Summer 2022)

To learn more about the Plan Eastern Nova project, planning more generally, and why it’s important, check out the project Home page.