Council moved to approve the pdf new Municipal Planning Strategy (3.88 MB) and pdf Land Use By-law (6.38 MB)  at the June 9th, 2016 Council Meeting. If you are interested in the extensive Public Participation program that took place to create these documents please take a moment to review the pdf process. (69 KB)

The Town of Yarmouth has a Heritage Incentive Program in which Municipally Registered Heritage Properties located within the Town of Yarmouth are eligible for matched financial support for exterior conservation work.

This is an annual program in which owners of Town registered Heritage Properties may apply for 50% cost sharing support from the Town to aide in exterior renovations to their property to an annual maximum of $2 000.

This program is administered by the Town’s Heritage Advisory Committee. Council has dedicated $7,000 annually to be distributed for this program. Property owners may apply for cost sharing support once (1) per year, and will be awarded funding up to twice in any five (5) year period.

• Heritage Incentive Program
  
• How to Register as a Heritage Property

Priority is given to applications:

• For the preservation and restoration of historical structural and weatherproofing
  elements over cosmetic improvements;
• For publicly visible features;
• And/or Supported by a Building Conservation Plan that has been prepared by an
  architect, building inspector, engineer or other qualified restoration professional.

A few recipients of  previous grants were 225 Main Street, 37 Alma Street, 23 Clements & 3 Sycamore Street. Check out these beautiful homes and the work that has been done.

•  Click here for an application form
•   pdf Letter to Heritage Property Owners (199 KB)
•   pdf Process and Time Line (60 KB)

Updates to the Heritage Property Act were made in December 2010. Follow this LINK  for details.

Please see the link below to a new episode of Planning on the Edge. In this episode, the PAC solves all the Town’s flooding issues! We apologize for the poor audio quality.

https://soundcloud.com/planningontheedge/low-impact-development-a-solution-to-flooding-part-1