News: World Canoe Championship: The big breaking news this week is that Canoe Kayak Canada and our local Atlantic Division have been successful in landing the 2022 World Canoe Sprint Championship for Lake Banook. The Worlds are coming to Dartmouth! This will be Dartmouth’s third time hosting the event, which …
Willow Tree: The first half of Regional Council was all deferred business and included the return of the Willow Tree development at the corner of Quinpool and Robie. The motion on the floor from the January public hearing was whether to allow a 20 storey building on the property. During …
Implementing the Integrated Mobility Plan: The day at Regional Council was a big one for transportation, with both the South Park Street protected bike lane and the Gottingen Street bus lane up for consideration. The Regional Plan sets a goal of having 30% of trips in HRM made by walking, …
Budget 2018: For the last few months Council has been working through the 2018/2019 budget process and in our last Budget Committee we got our first look at the whole picture. The municipal budget is complicated in the details and impacts, but in a very basic way, it’s similar to how …
Lake Banook Pollution Study: The most important piece on Council’s agenda for District 5 was the Lake Banook Pollution Study. The proposed study has come out of a motion I made back in September in response to the significant increase in beach closures at Birch Cove over the last three …
