59. A regional county municipality or a community may apply to the commission to determine in which cases and under which conditions new uses of land for residential purposes may be introduced in an agricultural zone.
In addition to the regional county municipality or the community, the local municipality concerned and the certified association are interested persons in relation to the application. A copy of the application must be sent to them by the regional county municipality or the community making the application.
The application must concern1° a destructured tract of land in the agricultural zone ; or
2° lots having an area sufficient to avoid destructuring the agricultural zone, situated in sectors identified in the RCM land use and development plan, in the metropolitan land use and development plan or in a draft amendment or revision of such a plan.
In the territory of a municipality included in any of the groups identified in the decree made under section 58.7, the application must also concern:1° lots presenting significant constraints for the practice of agricultural activities situated outside a dynamic agricultural land use sector identified in the RCM land use and development plan, in the metropolitan land use and development plan or in a draft amendment or revision of such a plan; or
2° lots adjacent to a public road and served by public water and sanitary sewer services.
The application must contain the information required by the commission, including the information required for the purposes of section 62. If this is not a first application, the application must be submitted together with a report on the building permits issued under any previous decision of collective scope.
An application of collective scope is admissible if the commission has received a statement indicating that the application is consistent with the RCM land use and development plan, the metropolitan land use and development plan and, if applicable, with the interim control measures in force in the territory of the regional county municipality or the community.
The application is also admissible upon receipt of a statement from the Minister of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy indicating that the application is consistent with the government policy directions relating to a draft amendment to the RCM land use and development plan or to the metropolitan land use and development plan.
The commission shall enter every admissible application in the general register and inform the interested persons.
For the purposes of this section, Municipalité de Baie-James is deemed to be a regional county municipality.
1978, c. 10, s. 59; 1985, c. 26, s. 18; 1989, c. 7, s. 19; 1996, c. 2, s. 825; 1996, c. 26, s. 36; 2001, c. 35, s. 3; 2002, c. 68, s. 52; 2010, c. 10, s. 138; 2025, c. 52025, c. 5, s. 4311.