The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg appears poised to move ahead with land-use bylaws and planning rules related to coastal protection, which could make it the first council to do so after the provincial government announced it was abandoning the Coastal Protection Act.

"I would say within the next couple of weeks that we will be making a decision on this," Mayor Carolyn Bolivar-Getson said during an interview on Tuesday, following a presentation to council by officials with the provin…