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Brule Street Interim Planning Area Order
made under subsection 229A(2) of the
Halifax Regional Municipality Charter
N.S. Reg. 183/2025 (effective September 17, 2025)
Whereas subsection 4A(3) of the Minimum Planning Requirements Regulations, N.S. Reg. 138/2019, required the Halifax Regional Municipality to implement the minimum planning requirements outlined in subsection 4A(2) of the regulations no later than December 31, 2024;
And whereas the Minister of Growth and Development extended that deadline, at the Municipality’s request, and requested under subsection 229A(1) of the Halifax Regional Municipality Charter that the Municipality adopt a new municipal planning strategy or amend the existing municipal planning strategy to fulfill the minimum planning requirements outlined in subsection 4A(2) of the regulations no later than June 30, 2025;
And whereas the Council did not comply with that request;
And whereas there is a provincial interest in building more affordable housing, and an affordable housing development is proposed in the area noted below;
Now, therefore, I order the following:
1. The area of the Municipality located at the civic addresses 22 and 24 Brule Street, with Parcel Identification Numbers 00037176 and 00037184, is designated as an interim planning area.
2. This interim planning area may be referred to as the “Brule Street Interim Planning Area.”
3. Development within the Brule Street Interim Planning Area is hereby regulated to give effect to clause 4A(2)(h) of the Minimum Planning Requirements Regulations, N.S. Reg. 138/2019, which provides that for residential buildings that begin construction before April 1, 2027, the Municipality’s municipal planning strategy must provide that no requirement related to unit mix applies.
4. No requirement related to unit mix may apply to any residential building development that begins construction before April 1, 2027, within the Brule Street Interim Planning Area.
5. Development within the Brule Street Interim Planning Area for the purposes of building affordable housing must not be refused by the Municipality on the basis of amenity space requirements, in order to protect the provincial interest in building more affordable housing.
6. All other relevant land use requirements of the Municipality continue to apply in the Brule Street Interim Planning Area.
This Order is effective on and after the date it is filed with the Registrar of Regulations.
Dated and made September 11, 2025, at Halifax, Halifax Regional Municipality, Province of Nova Scotia.
sgd. John Lohr
Honourable John Lohr
Minister of Municipal Affairs