It’s easy to miss since it’s an Information Item on this week’s Regional Council agenda and not a report that is up for discussion, but there is an update on the Sawmill River project (aka the Sullivan’s Pond Stormwater Renewal). Work will be getting underway this summer! Halifax Water will …
The Budget: The big news from Council is we passed the 2017/2018 budget. HRM has recently started a process of detailed multi-year budgeting for several years out. For District 5, here are some highlights that are in the plan for the next several years: Sportsplex renovation, Alderney Landing recap, landscaping for the Canal …
This didn’t get picked up for publication in the Coast so I’m sharing it here instead. It’s in response to this review of Picnic on Portland Street in Downtown Dartmouth. I was delighted to read the positive review of Picnic by Melissa Boute published on March 9th. The Dart Gallery/Picnic is …
Halifax Water Presentation: A large portion of Council’s time this week (agenda here) was spent on a presentation from Halifax Water. Halifax Water is a private utility, but its sole shareholder is HRM. Once a year, Halifax Water comes before Council to present their business plan and to answer any …
Willow Tree It was a busy afternoon at Council (agenda here). The main item on the agenda was the 29 storey proposed tower at Quinpool and Robie (aka the Willow Tree). This one has a bit of a complicated backstory. The Willow Tree proposal first came to council as two …
March 18, 2017 – HRM’s LED street light conversion progam has arrived in District 5. Over the next several weeks crews will be out replacing the old sodium lights with much more efficient LEDs. The conversion has been mandated by the Province through the Energy Efficiency Appliance Act, which requires …
March 7, 2017 – So here’s what happened of note on Tuesday. Budget: Having decided what to include in the budget after various department’s presented to Council over the last several weeks, we had to decide how to pay for the extras. Some of the noteworthy extra items included more …
March 2, 2017 – Last night Harbour East Community Council met. The two main items on the agenda was a proposal from Innova Corp and Clearwater Seafoods to rezone their properties, 1 Research Drive and 101 Research Drive, on the edge of the Woodside Industrial Park from Institutional to Industrial (I-1). …
February 22, 2017 – Today’s meeting was remarkably short. We resumed our debate of the ever popular $42 Stormwater Right of Way (ROW) tax. The stormwater ROW tax originated from a 2013 URB decision that requires HRM to pay Halifax Water $3.9 million a year to cover the cost of …
February 15, 2017 – Today we continued budget deliberations at Committee of the Whole. The way the budgeting process has worked this year is a base budget was prepared by staff and council was given options as to how we could provide better service (increase in costs) or make cuts …
