The changes below are proposed to permitted and discretionary uses in several districts in the Land Use Bylaw (LUB).
Permitted uses are land uses that must be approved if they meet the requirements of the LUB.
Discretionary uses may be approved if they meet the requirements of the LUB. The Development
Authority may require more stringent standards for discretionary uses.
Agriculture (A) District
Permitted Uses: Add: accessory dwellings, cabins, sea cans, second dwelling units, secondary suites, agricultural sales and service, apiary, exterior storage, public building or use, recreation (extensive), sign, and solar collector.
Discretionary Uses: Add: agri-tourism, compressor station, power generating station, and shooting range.
Crown Land (CL) District
Permitted Uses: Add: compressor Station, public utility, exterior storage, manufactured home, public building or use, recreation (extensive), and sign.
Discretionary Uses: Add: industrial landfill.
Country Residential One (CR1)
Permitted Uses: Add: home based business (minor), secondary suite and solar collector.
Discretionary Uses: Add: duplex, multi-unit dwelling, and sea can.
Country Residential Two (CR2)
Permitted Uses: Add: secondary suite, and solar collector.
Discretionary Uses: Add: duplex, multi-unit dwelling, and sea can.
Hamlet Residential One (HR1)
Permitted Uses: Add: duplex and solar collector.
Discretionary Uses: Add: public building or use, and sea can.
Hamlet Residential Two (HR2)
Permitted Uses: Add: solar collector.
Discretionary Uses: Add: sea can.
Hamlet Commercial (HC)
Permitted Uses: Add: dealership, lodging establishment, mobile food services, personal services
establishment, recreation (indoor), service station, sign, and solar collector.
Discretionary Uses: Add: public building or use, and sea can.
Hamlet Industrial (HI)
Permitted Uses: Add: sea can, exterior storage, light manufacturing, sign, and solar collector.
Rural Commercial (RC)
Permitted Uses: Add: sea can, solar collector, automotive and equipment repair, dealership, lodging
establishment, mobile food services, recreation (extensive), recreation (indoor), and sign.
Rural Light Industrial (RLI)
Permitted Uses: Add: sea can, solar collector, agricultural sales and services, automotive and equipment
repair, contractor (limited), exterior storage, light manufacturing, mini storage, sign, and warehouse.
Rural Heavy Industrial (RHI)
Permitted Uses: Add: sea can, dealership, exterior storage, heavy equipment service and repair, public building or use, sign, small scale wind energy conversion system, solar collector, and transportation terminal.
Public Service (PS)
Permitted Uses: Add: solar collector, small scale wind energy conversion system.
The changes below are proposed to the regulations in the LUB:
- Confined Feeding Operations: Include a prohibition on the keeping of wild boar in the County.
- Dwelling Units Per Lot: Add exemption second or additional dwellings on lots in the Agriculture (A) District.
- Landfills: Add setback regulations for County landfills.
- Oilfield Facilities: Expand to address carbon capture facilities, compressors, and battery sites.
- Solar Energy Facilities: A development permit application for a solar energy facility shall include the additional requirements: site suitability analysis, lot grading and drainage plan, decommissioning and reclamation plan, weed control plan.
- Wild Boar: The keeping and rearing of wild boar is prohibited in the County.
- Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS): All development permit applications for a WECS shall
be accompanied by a decommissioning and reclamation plan.
- Sea Cans:
- A maximum of one (1) sea can on a country residential or hamlet residential lot.
- Multiple sea cans may be located on a country residential or hamlet residential lot if required for
assembly for use as a dwelling unit.
- The number of sea cans located on a non-residential lot at the discretion of the Development Authority.
- Sea cans shall only be located in a side or rear yard.
- A sea can that is accessory to an agricultural use may be located in a front yard.
- Sea cans being used for storage cannot be stacked.
- The Development Authority may require as a condition of development permit approval that sea cans be screened from view.
The following changes are proposed to the development permits and Development Officer’s discretion sections in the LUB.
When Development Permits are not required:
- Compressors stations under 100HP
- Accessory buildings not built on permanent foundations in agricultural district
- Accessory buildings less than 9.3 m2 (100 ft2) in a hamlet or country residential district
- Sea cans on agricultural, industrial or commercial lot
- Public utilities in road right-of-way, public utility lots and easements
- Uses, developments and activities exempt from permits in LUB
Development Officer’s Discretion:
Increase in variance authority from 10% to 25% for Development Officer and increase variance authority of Municipal Planning Commission from 25% to 50%.
The definitions below are proposed to be added to and/or updated in the LUB.
- Accessory dwelling
- Oil or gas processing plant
- Alternative energy systems
- Agri-tourism
- Alternative energy systems
- Cabin
- Compressor station
- Power generating station
- Sea can
- Shooting range