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Updated Draft Documents & Public Hearing Details

2025.03.03

NOTICE OF SECOND (FINAL) READINGS OF A MUNICIPAL PLANNING STRATEGY AND LAND USE BY-LAW FOR THE  MUNICIPALITY OF THE COUNTY OF VICTORIA 

Please take notice that the Council of the Municipality of the County of Victoria intends to consider, and if deemed advisable, adopt by way of second reading, “the Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law” at the regular Council meeting to be held at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, March 24, 2025. 

The object of these documents is to comply with the Province of Nova Scotia’s Minimum Planning Requirements Regulations for Municipality of the County of Victoria.    

Copies of the proposed documents may be inspected by interested persons at the Municipal Building, 495 Chebucto Street, Baddeck, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding Statutory Holidays or by visiting the County website at www.victoriacounty.com/government/by-laws/   or by clicking the links below.

The public are invited to make any written or oral presentations at the Public Hearing to be held on: 

Monday, March 24, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. 

Municipal Building, 495 Chebucto Street 

Baddeck, NS 

Please note relevant maps have been included at the end of each document (i.e. the zoning map can be found at the end of the Land Use Bylaw).

Fact Sheets

Planning documents can be daunting, so we created a series of Fact Sheets detailing the policy directions pertaining to the following key issues:

SHARE YOUR FEEDBACK

Engagement on the second public drafts is now closed. Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback!

If you have any questions, please contact the Eastern District Planning Commission (www.edpc.ca)

 ABOUT THE PROJECT

Plan Victoria County is a project to create a Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law for all areas of the Municipality of the County of Victoria. 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 Victoria has one plan area (Baddeck) and a plan related to large-scale wind turbines. Much of the Municipality currently remains 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: Initial Engagement Summary

Take a read through the initial engagement summary for Plan Victoria 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 Victoria County Documents (from Summer 2022)

Second Drafts of Plan Victoria County Documents (from Winter 2024)

*Note that maps are included as appendices at the end of the MPS and LUB files linked below.

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