Municipality of Pictou County
Municipality of Pictou County
The Municipality of Pictou County, located in northern Nova Scotia, is home to approximately 20,000 residents. This rural community features a diverse landscape of farmland, forests and industry, offering both natural beauty and economic opportunity. Whether you're here to live, work or visit, Pictou County welcomes you.
NOTICE: We've temporarily run out of water bottles that are being distributed to residents whose wells have gone dry. The water is expected to be restocked Monday afternoon, Oct 27.
MUNICIPALITY OF THE COUNTY OF PICTOU
MUNICIPAL PLANNING STRATEGY AND LAND-USE BYLAW
TAKE NOTICE that on Monday, May 5th, 2025, the Municipal Council for the Municipality of the County of Pictou adopted a Municipal Planning Strategy and Land-use Bylaw.
The Municipal Planning Strategy (MPS) is the primary planning document for the Municipality which establishes the vision, goals and policies for growth and development. It is the roadmap that helps to guide decision making relating to what we build, where, and at what intensity. An MPS looks at many different aspects of life in the community including (but not limited to) housing, economic development, agriculture, drinking water, and infrastructure.
The Land Use Bylaw (LUB) is the companion document to the MPS, and puts the vision, goals, and policies into action through specific regulations that have to do with development activities. The LUB sets out things like the land-use zones, permitted uses for these zones, standards for development, performance standards, developments to be considered by development agreement, developments to be considered by site plan approval process, among other things.
On August 6th, 2025, the Honourable John A. Lohr, Minister of Municipal Affairs approved the Municipal Planning Strategy and Land-Use Bylaw with Ministerial Amendments in accordance with Section 208(6) of the Municipal Government Act.
Residents of the Municipality wishing to view the by-law in its entirety including the Ministerial Amendments can do so at the Municipal Administration Building, 46 Municipal Drive, Pictou, N. S. during regular business hours (8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.) or on our website at www.munpict.ca.
In accordance with Section 208(8) of the Municipal Government Act, the Municipality hereby gives notice that the Municipal Planning Strategy and Land-Use Bylaw adopted by the Municipal Council on May 5th, 2025, now have force of law and are in effect as of August 28, 2025, this being the date of publication.
Brian Cullen
Chief Administrative Officer
Municipal Clerk
Dated at Pictou, Nova Scotia this the 28th day of August 2025.
Municipal Land Use Bylaw
Municipal Planning Strategy
