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.
Employment Opportunities
The District Planning Commission provides building inspection, planning and development services for the Counties of Antigonish, Richmond, Victoria, Inverness and the Towns of Antigonish and Port Hawkesbury. We are looking for those interested in applying for our opening as:
Municipality of Inverness County
Notice of Public Hearing
Inverness County Wind Turbine Development
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Council of the Municipality of the County of Inverness intends to consider and, if deemed advisable, adopt amendments to the Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use Bylaw for the County of Inverness Concerning the Regulation of Wind Turbine Development to implement stricter development standards for utility scale wind turbines including new setback requirements from the coastline, property lines and residences, revised noise requirements, as well as the adoption a revised zoning map increasing the area where the Utility-Scale Turbine Exclusion (UTE-1) zone applies. The amendments under consideration can be found here:
Written or oral presentations (for or against the amendment) can be made before Municipal Council at a Public Hearing to be held:
Date: Wednesday March 19th, 2025
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Municipal Administrative Building, 375Main St, Port Hood
Staff Reports
Inverness County Wind Turbine Development
| Amending Pages as recommended to Council from the November 21, 2024 Inverness County Planning Advisory Committee. View Document |
| Memo to Inverness County Committee of the Whole. View Document |
Richmond County
| West Richmond, Central Richmond, Isle Madame, St. Peters and Richmond County Land Use Bylaws – Variance procedure amendments increasing the period for appealing a variance in the requirements of the corresponding land use by-law from Fourteen (14) to twenty-on (21) days. These amendments apply to all areas of Richmond County and the purpose of the amendments is to allow for more time for the Municipality to receive an appeal. View Document |
| Richmond Subdivision By-law – Amendments clarifying right-of-way easements need be “assignable and perpetual and clearly granted by deed” as opposed to “clearly surveyed” which was the original wording. The purpose of this amendment is to bring the wording of the by-law into conformity with the Provincial Subdivision Regulations View Document |
Antigonish County
| Review of Kennel Provisions within the West River Antigonish Harbour, Central Antigonish, and Keppoch-Beaver Mountain Plan Areas. View Document |
Port Hood
| Enabling private roads in the Port Hood Plan Area – View Document |
West River Antigonish Harbour Plan
| Application to rezone a portion of property (PID 10132611) located between Highway 337 and Mount Cameron Circle (extensions to Harbour View Drive and Duykers Drive) as well as four properties (PIDs 10137099, 10137107, 10137115 and 10137131) located on Mount Cameron Circle, Antigonish Landing, Antigonish County from the Residential (R-1) Zone to the Residential Multi-unit (R-2) Zone to allow for the development of a quadplex residential development View Document |