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Plan Richmond County Fact Sheets
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Plan Richmond County - Fact Sheets
The updated draft Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use Bylaw are now online. To view the draft documents click here.
The project team has also developed a series of Fact Sheets that give a summary of the policy directions that the draft documents take regarding a few key topics like housing, agriculture and recreation & tourism, as well as more general project information and frequently asked questions about planning. Visit the project website at www.planrichmond.ca to view the Fact Sheets, read the draft planning documents or view the proposed zoning for your property using the online mapping tool. You can submit any comments or questions using the online feedback form, by emailing the project team at or by mail at UPLAND Planning + Design, 1489 Hollis Street Level 2, Halifax NS, B3J 3M5”
Submit your feedback on the updated draft documents!
This will help inform any final changes before the documents go to Council to begin the formal adoption process in late 2023. The formal adoption process will include a Public Hearing. To guarantee your feedback is considered in the next draft, please submit your feedback by 11:59pm on October 8th.
Fact Sheets
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Plan Richmond County Introduction(880 KB)
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Environment
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Tourism(2.58 MB)
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Housing(426 KB)
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Agriculture(2.46 MB)
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Plan Richmond County Project Update - Submit Your Feedback
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Plan Richmond County
Plan Richmond County is a project to create a Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law for all areas for the Municipality of the County of Richmond.
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 Richmond has six plan areas and a 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.
The second Draft Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use Bylaw have been updated based on public feedback obtained last year and we are inviting residents to review
them at this time. Residents are invited to share their feedback until Sunday, October 8th, 2023 at 11:59 PM.
A mail out is in progress to the residents in unplanned areas.
You can view the documents and submit feedback on the project website using the online feedback form at www.planrichmond.ca or you can submit your comments to us by email at .
If you do not have internet access, you can call the project team at (902) 423-0649 to inquire about the proposed zoning on your property.
Please see the attached document for more information and frequently asked questions.
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Plan Richmond County Mail Outs 2023(1.68 MB)
Nova Scotia Building Code Regulations: Public Notice
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Nova Scotia Building Code Regulations: Public Notice
The Government of Nova Scotia is considering amendments to the Nova Scotia Building Code Regulations. Nova Scotians are invited to provide feedback on the proposed changes by 29 September 2023.
The proposed amendments to the Nova Scotia Building Code Regulations are required to adopt the 2020 National Building Code, National Plumbing Code and National Energy Code for Buildings as the minimum standards for construction in the province.
The amendments are proposed to come into effect on or after 1 January 2024.
How to participate
Nova Scotians are invited to review the proposed amendments and provide their feedback. The deadline for submitting your comments is 29 September 2023.
Review the Nova Scotia Building Code Proposed Regulations (PDF) and Draft Amendments Schedule A to C (PDF) before sending your comments.
You can submit your comments by email or mail.
Joe Rogers
Building Code Coordinator
PO Box 231
Halifax Central
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 2M4
For Questions or more information
Phone: 902-424-5721
Toll-free (within Nova Scotia): 1-800-559-3473
* The document can also be viewed at the Municipal Administration Office during regular office hours.
Check in at the front desk. The document will be located in Council Chambers along with contact numbers if you have questions.
Enjoy the outdoors – and be tick aware!
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Enjoy the outdoors – and be tick aware!
Message from:
Dr. Jesse Kancir, MD MPhil CCFP FRCPC
Regional Medical Officer of Health, Eastern Zone
Public Health, Nova Scotia Health
Summer and fall in Nova Scotia are wonderful seasons where people spend countless hours outdoors at the many beautiful beaches, trails, parks, and wooded areas across our province. As we take in these natural riches we should also be mindful of the presence of ticks. These small insects – sometimes as small as the period at the end of this sentence – are found across Nova Scotia and can cause tick-borne diseases, including Lyme disease and anaplasmosis.
Here are some steps that people can take to protect themselves, especially in grassy, wooded, or shrub-covered areas:
• Apply insect repellents containing DEET or Icaridin to exposed skin and clothes. Follow directions on the package carefully. Infants under the age of six months should not use these products.
Please visit Personal Insect repellents - Canada.ca for specific instructions.
• Wear light colored, long-sleeved shirts and pants, closed-toed shoes, and tuck shirts into pants and pant legs into socks.
• Keep lawns mowed short.
• Put playground equipment in sunny, dry places away from wooded areas, yard edges, and trees.
• Check your whole body for ticks when possible (especially armpits, ears, knees, hair, groin) and take a bath or shower within two hours of coming indoors. This makes it easier to find ticks and washes away loose ones.
What do I do if I find a tick on me/my child?
If you find a tick on your body, remove it as soon as possible to lessen the risks of infection. Here’s how to remove them safely:
• Carefully grasp the tick with tweezers as close to the skin as possible.
• Gently and slowly pull the tick straight out. Don’t jerk, twist or squeeze it.
• Clean and disinfect the site with soap and water, rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide.
• Dispose of the tick in a sealed plastic bag and put in the garbage.
• Do NOT burn, squeeze, or coax a tick’s mouthparts from your skin using other methods.
eTick.ca is a free service that can identify the type of tick usually within 24 hours. Though Lyme and other tick-borne diseases in Nova Scotia are transmitted by the blacklegged (deer) tick, not all black-legged ticks carry disease and not all blacklegged ticks have black legs.
Blacklegged ticks that are attached to someone’s skin for at least 36-48 hours pose the highest risk of transmitting the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. One of the earliest and most common symptoms of Lyme disease is a rash that’s often shaped like a bull's-eye that occurs on the same site as the bite. Other symptoms of Lyme disease may include fever, fatigue, muscle aches, joint pain, headaches and occasionally irregular heartbeat, facial paralysis, weakness, confusion, and seizures. Symptoms of other tick-borne diseases can include those listed above for Lyme disease, as well as abdominal pain, vomiting, and/or jaundice. If you’ve been exploring outdoors, especially in wooded areas, forests, areas where tall grasses and/or shrubs are present, or have found a tick on your body, and show these symptoms, see a healthcare provider. Symptoms for tick-borne diseases typically appear within a few days to up to five weeks after you have been bitten.
There is no vaccine for tick borne diseases in Canada, however, there are antibiotics for the tick-borne diseases that are known to be in Nova Scotia. If a tick has been attached and is swollen (has been attached for more than 36 hours) you may be eligible for antibiotics to prevent an infection. You can visit a pharmacist, or a physician or nurse practitioner, to see if you need antibiotics.
For more information on tick-borne diseases, please visit: https://novascotia.ca/DHW/CDPC/lyme.asp