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The Planning and Development Department consists of Planning, Heritage, and Building Inspections. Projects involving changes to land or buildings in the City are required to be reviewed by the Planning and Development Department. Permits are required for most projects other than general maintenance. Please contact us before you start your development plans. Phone: 902.629.4158 Planning The Planning Department helps neighborhoods grow and change by working with citizens, businesses, and others on both short and long-term plans or projects. The Official Plan considers such items as land use, environmental services, housing, transportation, recreation, demographics, cultural and other physical factors to help plan for a healthy city we can all appreciate. Planning Board meetings are held the first Monday of each month with submission materials required one week in advance of the meeting. Planning Board’s recommendations are considered by Council at its meeting scheduled for the second Monday of each month. Learn More: Heritage The Heritage Board, comprised of members of City Council and a number of City residents with expertise and interest in the area of heritage conservation, serves as an advisory board to City Council on matters pertaining to protection of our heritage resources. Heritage Board meetings are scheduled the last Tuesday of each month, and information must be submitted to the Heritage Officer one week in advance of each meeting. Heritage Board's recommendations are considered by Council at its meeting scheduled for the second Monday of each month. Owners of heritage resources are encouraged to consider development that will enhance the heritage value of our buildings, streetscapes, and City.
Considerable community pride has developed and grown as a result of the physical improvements made to many heritage properties over the years, strengthening the idea that Charlottetown’s heritage resources are precious and of irreplaceable value to the community. Special Initiatives 500 Lot Area Commencing in the Fall of 2010, the City of Charlottetown retained The Planning Partnership (TPP) to prepare new Development Standards and Design Guidelines for the 500 Lot Area, which encompasses much of the City’s historic, cultural, civic and symbolic core. The Standards and Guidelines have been drafted with a view to being implemented through a form-based approach to zoning. A form-based approach to zoning is not a significant departure from existing zoning practices, which already provide direction for the form of development, in terms of set backs, heights, density, lot coverage, angular planes, etc. The primary difference compared to traditional zoning is that a form-based approach emphasizes the built form component first and foremost rather than land use. Form-based zoning by-laws comprehensively define the permitted building envelope a proposed development may achieve (in terms of form and massing), with consideration for the building’s relationship to other buildings and the public realm, including open spaces, and the street and block structure. In terms of the regulatory document, form-based zoning by-laws are highly illustrated to demonstrate the desired built outcome. Learn More: Charlottetown Eastern Gateway Waterfront Master Plan The Eastern Gateway Waterfront Master Plan represents a tremendous opportunity and challenge for the City of Charlottetown. If all of the partners involved in the implementation of this Plan take full advantage of the projects, ideas and concepts put forward through this planning exercise the result will be a stronger, more vibrant and beautiful Eastern Gateway. While the Charlottetown Area Development Corporation and its funding partners commissioned the development of this Plan, the implementation of the Plan will require the support and participation of many. This document provides a common vision for those many partners to work towards and describes how the Eastern Gateway should grow and change over the next 25-40 years. The Eastern Gateway Waterfront Master Plan has the potential to frame dozens of individual decisions that will be made in the Gateway over the next decade and beyond. The Plan does not include all the detail required to make the concept a reality, but it will create a framework for more detailed planning in the future; it can guide public decisions about land use and zoning, capital investments and private decisions relative to locating and expanding businesses or institutions. Finally, the Plan presents an inspiring concept that challenges both the community and the various decision makers involved in Charlottetown’s city-building processes to think differently about this part of their city and see its potential for a remarkable transformation Learn More: Related Files Bylaws See all City of Charlottetown Bylaws Application Forms Brochures Helpful Links |
The City of Charlottetown has an extensive and distinct architectural heritage. Considered the Birthplace of Confederation, our architectural heritage contributes greatly to the economy of the City and the quality of life of its residents and visitors. The City has identified individual heritage buildings and places throughout the City as well as a heritage area located in the downtown core. These resources are protected and managed through the process of heritage designation.
The City offers heritage incentives to maintain heritage resources in the City by way of a grant for eligible work. The City also recognizes work on heritage properties by giving recognition awards to owners. See Heritage Incentive Program for more |
Monday, May 21, 2012
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