65.1. Where an application for exclusion concerns a lot situated in the territory of a regional county municipality included in any of the groups identified in the decree made under section 58.7, the commission must, in addition to the criteria set out in section 62, take into consideration whether there is an appropriate available area elsewhere in the territory of the regional county municipality outside the agricultural zone.
In every other case, the commission must, in addition to the criteria set out in section 62, take into consideration whether there is an appropriate available area elsewhere in the territory of the local municipality outside the agricultural zone.
The commission may also take into consideration whether there is an appropriate available area in a different territory if the commission has received a statement indicating that the RCM land use and development plan or the metropolitan land use and development plan is consistent with the government policy directions in which the different scale selected has been deemed appropriate in relation to the object of the application.
However, the commission is not required to take into consideration the existence of such an appropriate available area if it is demonstrated to the commission that it would be impossible to implement the intended use there.
1996, c. 26, s. 42; 2001, c. 35, s. 11; 2002, c. 68, s. 52; 2010, c. 10, s. 140; 2021, c. 352021, c. 35, s. 811; 2025, c. 52025, c. 5, s. 561.