One of the challenges of buying land in Nova Scotia is determining what the potential uses of that land may be. Each municipality maintains their own zoning maps and land use bylaws. The zoning maps are useful to pinpoint a particular plot of land and determine its zoning. With that established, the land use bylaw contains the details on the permitted and restricted uses of each particular zone. Sounds like fun, right?

 

Well, here’s some good news. In this post we’ve created the first all-in-one reference for Nova Scotia zoning maps and land use bylaws. We THINK we’ve found them all, but if something is missing or inaccurate please let us know. Of course, zoning is important to consider when buying land, but so are 1,000 other things. Be sure to check out our guide to buying land in Nova Scotia

 

Cape Breton Zoning

Cape Breton Land Zoning Map: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=34b5e62a2a7f4904bde0b56a9e27df05

Cape Breton Land Use Bylaw: https://www.cbrm.ns.ca/municipal-planning.html

 

Halifax Zoning

Halifax Land Zoning Maps:  https://www.halifax.ca/about-halifax/regional-community-planning/community-plan-areas/halifax-plan-area

Halifax Mainland Land Use Bylaw: https://cdn.halifax.ca/sites/default/files/documents/about-the-city/regional-community-planning/halifaxmainlandlanduseby-law-edition216-eff-22sep15-caserp16-16-toclinked_0.pdf

 

Queens Zoning

Region of Queens Municipality land zoning maps and land use bylaws: https://www.regionofqueens.com/municipal-services/planning/land-use-planning

 

Hants Zoning

East Hants land zoning map: https://www.easthants.ca/government/municipal-departments/planning-development/interactive-east-hants/

East Hants land use Bylaw: https://www.easthants.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/LUB-2016-Part-1-Administration.pdf

 

West Hants land zoning map: https://www.westhants.ca/planning/planning-documents/3122-mps-map-1-generalized-future-land-use-map/file.html See additional documents here: https://www.westhants.ca/planning-documents.html

West Hants land use Bylaw: https://www.westhants.ca/by-laws-and-policies/by-laws/west-hants-by-laws/3471-wh-land-use-by-law-consolidated-november-18-2021/file.html

 

Annapolis Zoning

Annapolis County land zoning map: https://annapoliscounty.ca/Documents/1EzFolderList/CommunityDev/MunicipalPlanningStrategyLandUseBy-law/AnnapolisCounty/Future%20Land%20Use%20Map.jpg

Annapolis County land use bylaw: https://annapoliscounty.ca/community-development/zoning-development-control/291-municipal-planning-strategies-land-use-bylaws

 

Antigonish Zoning

Town of Antigonish land use zoning map: https://www.townofantigonish.ca/news/757-toa-zoning-map/file.html

Antigonish County land use zoning maps: http://www.edpc.ca/plan_docs.htm

Antigonish County land use bylaws: http://www.edpc.ca/plan_docs.htm

 

Colchester Zoning

Colchester County land zoning map: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/510215b0a4384cbfaf901dac8b25347a

Colchester County land use bylaw: https://colchester.ca/3494-central-colchester-land-use-by-law-chapter-40/file

 

Cumberland Zoning

Cumberland County land zoning map: https://www.plancumberland.ca/zoning-map

Cumberland County land use bylaw: https://www.plancumberland.ca/documents

 

Inverness Zoning

Inverness County land zoning maps: http://www.edpc.ca/plan_docs.htm

Inverness County land use bylaw: http://www.edpc.ca/plan_docs.htm

 

Kings Zoning

County of Kings land zoning map: https://www.countyofkings.ca/upload/All_Uploads/services/maps/Master%20Map/CountyLUB_map.pdf

County of Kings land use bylaw: https://www.countyofkings.ca/residents/services/planning/lub.aspx

 

Pictou Zoning

Pictou County land zoning map: https://www.townofpictou.ca/planning/244-land-use-by-law-zoning-map-schedule-a-2/file

Pictou County land use bylaw: https://www.townofpictou.ca/planning-by-laws-and-documents

 

Richmond Zoning

Richmond County land zoning maps: http://www.edpc.ca/plan_docs.htm

Richmond County land use bylaw: http://www.edpc.ca/plan_docs.htm

 

Victoria Zoning

Victoria County land zoning maps: http://www.edpc.ca/plan_docs.htm

Victoria County land use bylaw: http://www.edpc.ca/plan_docs.htm

 

Yarmouth Zoning

Yarmouth County land zoning map and land use bylaw: https://www.townofyarmouth.ca/land-use-by-law-and-zoning-map2.html

 

Shelburne Zoning

Shelburne County land zoning map (see page 27) and land use bylaw: https://www.municipalityofshelburne.ca/by-laws/377-municipal-planning-strategy-and-land-use-by-law-l-101/file.html

 

Lunenburg Zoning

Lunenburg County land zoning map: https://www.modl.ca/zoningmap.html

Lunenburg County land use bylaw: https://www.modl.ca/zoning.html

 

Digby Zoning

Digby County zoning map (see page 13) and land use bylaw: https://digbymun.ca/1078-regulation-of-wind-turbine-development-land-use-by-law-july-2018/file.html

 

Guysborough Zoning

District of Guysborough land zoning map: https://modg.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/Existing%20Land%20Use%20By-law%20Zoning%20Map.pdf

District of Guysborough land use bylaw: https://modg.ca/sites/default/files/pdfs/LAND%20USE%20BYLAW.pdf

 

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