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Request
Application by UPLAND Planning + Design Studio to rezone 749 Windgate Drive, Beaver Bank from MU-1 (Mixed Use 1) zone to I-1 (Mixed Industrial) zone to accommodate an auto repair and sales business use.
Proposal
Application by UPLAND Planning + Design Studio to rezone 749 Windgate Drive, Beaver Bank from MU-1 (Mixed Use 1) zone to I-1 (Mixed Industrial) zone to accommodate an auto repair and sales business use.
Until recently, the site has been used for the storage of materials, heavy vehicles, and construction equipment. The proposed auto repair and sales business would occupy the existing buildings on the property.
The I-1 zone permits the following uses:
- Any manufacturing, processing, assembly or warehousing operation which is not obnoxious and which is conducted and wholly contained within a building
- Service industries
- General contracting storage yards and services
- Transport facilities and maintenance yards
- Heavy machinery sales and service
- Building materials outlets
- Greenhouses
- Existing asphalt plants
- Trucking, landscaping, excavating and paving services
- Communication transmission stations
- Commercial and office uses accessory to permitted industrial uses
- Cannabis production facilities
- Agriculture uses
- Forestry uses
- Composting operations
- Single unit dwellings, shared housing use, and mobile dwellings in association with permitted industrial and resource uses
- Any uses permitted in the General Business (C-2) zone
Process
The application will be considered under the rezoning process.
Status
The public feedback period for this application is now closed. Staff are currently drafting a recommendation report for Community Council.
Documents Submitted for Evaluation
The applicant has submitted plans and studies required by HRM staff to properly evaluate the application. The documents are also available for review at the Planning Applications office in Downtown Halifax.
Planning Rationale
Map of Existing Conditions
Map of Proposed Conditions
Aerial Photograph
Stormwater Flow Diagram
Septic Plan
Contact Information
For further information, please contact:
Mailing Address
HRM Planning Applications
PO Box: 1749,
Halifax,
Nova Scotia,
B3J 3A5
Attention: Alex Wilson