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Colchester Planning Advisory Committee Meeting

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Published: Thursday, 13 February 2025 14:21

The Colchester Planning Advisory Committee will be reviewing and making a recommendation on the draft county-wide planning documents at a public meeting on Tuesday, February 18, 2025.

 

The meeting will start at 6 pm in Council Chambers, located on the 3rd floor of the Municipal Building 1 Church Street, Truro. Please contact Pam Macintosh at 902-897-3170 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

 

The draft documents can be found here:  Plan It Colchester - Municipality of Colchester

Nova Scotia 2025 Property Assessments in the Mail

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Published: Monday, 20 January 2025 10:15

January 13, 2025 – Over the next few days, property owners throughout Nova Scotia can
expect to receive their 2025 Property Assessment Notices.

Assessments reflect a market value as of January 1, 2024, based on market sales and
financial data, and the physical state of the property as of December 1, 2024, including
renovations and demolitions.

Assessments are determined by Property Valuation Services Corporation (PVSC), the
independent, municipally funded, not-for-profit assessment authority for Nova Scotia.
PVSC determines market value using mass appraisal, the process of valuing a group of
properties on a given date using common data, standardized methods, and statistical
testing.

"The 2025 Assessment Roll reflects steady residential market growth especially in towns
outside of the Halifax Regional Municipality," says Charlene MacNeil, Director of
Assessment. "Our analysis indicates apartment buildings and manufactured homes are a
very strong market across the province."

The total value of the 2025 Assessment Roll is $190.6 billion.

"Commercially, both vacant land and industrial parks continue to show market growth,"
adds MacNeil.

This year's rate for the provincial government's Capped Assessment Program (CAP) is 1.5
per cent, reflecting the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Nova Scotia. The CAP limits the
annual increase in taxable assessment for eligible residential properties to no more than
the CPI rate for the year. About 67 per cent of residential assessments, 415,306 property
accounts, qualify for the CAP for 2025.

PVSC operates in accordance with the Nova Scotia Assessment Act and the Property
Valuation Services Corporation Act and follows internationally accepted standards for
mass appraisal.

PVSC representatives are available to discuss assessments and answer questions by
phone (1-800-380-7775) or email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). For more information, visit pvsc.ca.

Virtual Meetings Notice - January to March 2025

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Published: Thursday, 02 January 2025 08:24

Take Notice that the following regularly scheduled Council and Council Committee/Presentation meetings will be held both in-person and virtually:

Council Committee Presentations (held on an as needed basis)
• January 7, 2025
• February 4, 2025
• March 4, 2025

Regular Council Committee
• January 16, 2025
• February 13, 2025
• March 13, 2025

Council
• January 30, 2025
• February 27, 2025
• March 27, 2025

All meetings begin at 6pm unless otherwise noted. Anyone wishing to attend meetings virtually, please contact the Administration Office at 902-897-3184 or via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Dated January 2, 2025
Dan Troke
Chief Administrative Officer

Volunteer Opportunities - Various Boards and Committees

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Published: Wednesday, 18 December 2024 16:05

The Municipality of Colchester is currently seeking volunteers to fill various vacancies on the following Boards and Committees for the 2024-2028 term of Council:

  • Agricultural Working Committee: representatives from the farming industry;
  • Citizens Monitoring Committee (Kemptown Host Community): host community representatives and members at large;
  • Citizens Monitoring Committee (for Wind Turbines): citizen representatives from each Debert, Greenfield/Lower Harmony, Nuttby, Tatamagouche, Truro Heights/Hilden, and Higgins Mountain;
  • Debert Source Water Protection Advisory Committee: citizen representative;
  • Debert Business Park Advisory Committee: business and citizen representatives;
  • Flood Advisory Committee: citizen representative;
  • Fundy Discovery Site Committee: citizen representatives;
  • Joint Planning Advisory Committee: citizen representative;
  • Police Advisory Board: citizen representative;
  • Tatamagouche Planning Advisory Committee: citizen representatives (applicants must reside within the Village);
  • Tatamagouche Source Water Protection Advisory Committee: citizen representatives (applicants must be from the French River watershed area); and,
  • Tatamagouche Water Utility Committee: citizen representatives (applicants must live in the area serviced by the Tatamagouche Water Utility).

Letters of interest, including relevant background information will be received at the Municipal Building (Administration Office),
1 Church Street, Truro or via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Expressions of interest will be accepted until all positions are filled.

Dated December 16, 2024
Dan Troke
Chief Administrative Officer

Notice of Approval - Subdivision Bylaw

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Published: Friday, 22 November 2024 16:10

NOTICE OF APPROVAL
Subdivision Bylaw Amendments

TAKE NOTICE that on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, the Council of the Municipality of the County of Colchester approved amendments to the Subdivision Bylaw.

The amendments to the Bylaw, include text amendments, addition of requirements for flag lots, amendments regarding private roads, and requirements for lot approval of telecommunication towers. The amendments are effective immediately.

Copies of the Bylaw amendments are available from the Community Development Office, 1 Church Street, Truro, or through the County’s website at www.colchester.ca

Dated at Truro, N.S., November 22, 2024

Dan Troke

Chief Administrative Officer 

Managed Urban Deer Hunt Plebiscite

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Published: Tuesday, 24 September 2024 13:53

A plebiscite will be conducted in several urban communities of the Municipality of Colchester during the upcoming Municipal Election asking residents if they support a managed deer hunt to help control growing deer populations. Similar to the Town of Truro, many communities throughout the Municipality of Colchester have experienced problematic increases in deer. These increases have disrupted local ecosystems, destroyed property (gardens and landscapes), and have resulted in numerous Deer Vehicle Collisions (DVCs) and unsafe driving conditions.

Earlier this Spring the Municipality began working with Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables (DNR&R) in the Brookside/Bible Hill/Valley area to collect the 3-years of data required before a managed deer hunt can be considered. In 2025 data collection is anticipated to expand to the communities of Salmon River, Truro Heights, Lower Truro, and Hilden. These communities will all be included in the plebiscite during the election and will be asked to respond “yes” or "no” to the following question:

“Do you support a safely managed urban deer bow/crossbow hunt to control and reduce the urban deer population in and around your community?”

The Town of Truro spent several years in consultation with the DNR&R, researching, collecting data and gauging public opinion on how best to address their deer problem. A resulting Deer Management Strategy concluded that a controlled managed hunt is the most favourable population reduction method, in terms of effectiveness, feasibility, public cost, capacity, and time to implement. The Town, in partnership with Millbrook First Nation, has conducted several successful managed hunts since 2022 resulting in thousands of portions of protein being donated to Nova Scotia food banks through the Hunters Helping the Hungry program. A similar strategy mirroring Truro’s was adopted by the Town of Yarmouth in April of 2022.

What does a managed urban deer hunt mean?

A managed urban deer hunt is a controlled archery deer hunt, using carefully selected experienced, proficient archery hunters. These hunters operate under strict guidelines for the purpose of safely and humanely reducing the deer population numbers in select urban areas of the Municipality of Colchester for the benefit of natural ecosystems, citizen landscapes, reducing Deer Vehicle Collisions (DVCs) and an overall reduction of deer human conflict. A managed hunt would restrict the use of any firearms and would only involve bows/crossbows. The hunt would only take place in select areas of the community deemed to be safe and discreet (i.e., away from residences or places where people frequent) and a variety of necessary precautions would be taken to ensure public safety.

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