When Emilie McBride found herself looking for a new place to live in January this year, she thought she had a solution. But McBride’s efforts to install a manufactured home on her Sackville property were thwarted by a planning bylaw that requires dwellings to be a minimum of 20 feet in length and width.
“It’s been really frustrating,” says McBride. “The bylaw is an unnecessary bottleneck, knowing that different municipalities are bending in this housing crisis… and knowing that the adjacent municipalities don’t have dimensional restrictions like Tantramar does.”
McBride is now waiting on a proposed change to the former town of Sackville planning bylaw, which is slated for a public hearing at Tantramar council on January 27, 2025.
