PLANAPP 2025-01045 – PID 40423899 Sackville Drive, Sackville

Request

Adriane Salah, on behalf of the Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia, has applied to rezone the lands and enter into a development agreement for the development of a mixed-use building.

Proposal

The applicant has requested to rezone the lands from Planned Unit Development (PUD) and to enter into a development agreement in order to allow for the development of a 6-storey mixed-use building with residential dwelling units and commercial space at ground floor level. The major aspects of the proposal are as follows:

Six-storey mixed-use building;

Direct ingress/egress driveway at Sackville Drive;

81 residential units;

45. square metres commercial space at grade floor;

1030.95 square metres total amenity space; 490 square metres outdoor amenity space;

68 below grade and 28 surface vehicle parking spaces; 33 sheltered and 8 unsheltered bicycle parking spaces.

The Development Plans (provided below) outline the development proposal in detail, and include information related to location of the proposed building, parking locations, driveway access, elevations, amenity spaces and preliminary servicing.

Process

The application will be considered under the Rezoning and Development Agreement Process 

Status

The application is currently in the team review stage of the process. The first stage of the review has been completed and comments returned. The planner is now preparing a package of those comments as well as a policy matrix that reviews the relevant policies of the Sackville Municipal Planning Strategy to accompany a letter indicating what has occurred and the next stages in the application process.

Documents Submitted for Evaluation

The applicant has submitted plans and studies required by HRM staff to properly evaluate the application. Please click on the documents below to view them as a pdf. The documents are also available for review at the Planning Applications office in Downtown Halifax.