Cape Breton Regional Municipality's planning strategy and associated bylaws are more than 15 years old and it could take two years to modernize them, the municipality's planning director Michael Ruus has said. The Nova Scotia government has also brought in some new minimum planning requirements, so it's the right time to start going through the planning strategy and related bylaws, Ruus said. Planning director Michael Ruus says last year's viability study recommended a new economic development strategy, so CBRM is tying it in with new property development rules. "One of the key pieces of the viability study was to move forward with the economic development strategy, so that'll be a key piece of this entire project," he said. Ruus said the proposed review of the planning strategy and bylaws is unrelated.

Source: CBC News September 10, 2020 09:00 UTC