Agenda Harbour East Council February 6 Harbour East Community Council held a public hearing and approved revisions to the development agreement for King’s Wharf on Thursday. The revised King’s Wharf plan includes some significant changes around access, layout, building massing, and public spaces. What the hearing wasn’t, was a retrial …
Agenda January 14 Regional Council hereAgenda January 9 Harbour East Council here Ride Hailing in HRM: Uber, Lyft, and the like were front and centre on Council’s agenda on Tuesday as staff returned with a report on recommended bylaw changes to facilitate ride hailing in HRM. There is technically nothing …
Agenda December 10 here Stadium: The stadium debate returned to Council yesterday with the completion of staff’s report on the Schooner’s proposal. The report was a far from glowing assessment. A lot of the concerns that staff identified, from infrastructure costs, to problems with the proposed tax district, to the …
Council is finishing the 2019 with a crunch of meetings (weekly rather than bi-weekly) Here’s what’s happened over the last two meetings Agenda December 3 hereAgenda November 26 here Woodland Roundabout: One of the items on Council’s agenda that grabbed a lot of the media attention over the last two …
Agenda November 12 hereAgenda October 29 here Port Wallace Development: There has been a snag in one of the biggest potential developments in Dartmouth: Port Wallace. If you’re not familiar with the Port Wallace development, it’s an entirely new community being proposed by Clayton on the vacant lands between Waverley …
Agenda October 22 here Stadium Vote: By now you’ve probably heard that my motion to rescind Council’s previous direction and stop work on the CFL stadium proposal was lost. The vote was 8-9. Voting with me were Councillors Mason, Cleary, Smith, Zurawski, Outhit, Whitman, and the new guy from Sackville, …
Time has gotten away from me over the last few weeks. This is a round-up of not one, not two, but three Council meetings. Agenda October 8 here Agenda September 24 hereAgenda September 17 here Stadium: Probably most of you have likely heard about my motion to rescind Council’s previous …
Transit Fares: Council voted yesterday to increase transit fares by $0.25 across the board. Adult, senior, youth, and student fares are all going up $0.25, but Council rejected staff’s advice to eliminate the senior’s discount. Why raise fares? I’m a fan of reality and reality doesn’t care about politics. Costs …
Meeting agenda July 30 here Prince Albert/Glenwood Hotel: I have to start this Council update with some bad news: the 16 storey hotel at Prince Albert/Glenwood is going ahead. The staff report looking at what options HRM has to stop the project has revealed that there are none. There are …
Meeting agenda June 18 hereMeeting agenda June 18 (Committee of the Whole) hereMeeting agenda June 25 here Centre Plan: Staff received the go ahead from Council to finalize the Centre Plan’s Package A, the plan for the growth areas inside the Circ in Dartmouth and Peninsula Halifax. The Centre Plan …
