Council Update: Kiwanis Grahams Grove, Alcohol Park Avenue Oven, Affordable Housing

Kiwanis Grahams Grove: The main item on the Council agenda, for District 5 anyway, was a new building at Grahams Grove Park. Grahams Grove is the municipal park along Lake Banook opposite the Superstore. The main organized uses are the Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth, and Dartmouth Dragon Boat Association, each …

Council Update: Barrington AT, Sheet Harbour Centre, Gardens, Blue Mountain

Barrington Greenway: The dust of the Cogswell debate has barely settled, but on Tuesdays Council agenda the topic of cycling and pedestrian infrastructure on Barrington Street was back, this time the discussion was focussed on north of the Macdonald Bridge. Barrington Street from the intersection with North and the Dockyard …

Council Update: Budget Options List, Taxis, Gray Arena, Access-a-Bus

Budget Wish List: Over the last several weeks, each of HRM’s departments has presented a budget based on a 1.9% out-of-pocket increase in the bill to the average home ($36.59). As the departments have presented, each one has identified what they’ve had to do without to get to 1.9%, as …

Council Update: Budget Deliberations, Snow Standards, Climate Emergency and More

Budget Deliberations: Capital On Friday, staff were back before Council with options to fund the so-called B list of capital projects. You may recall from my December e-news that HRM has a big gap in terms of capital funding. The municipality has some ambitious plans including the Moving Forward Together …

Council Update: Capital Budget, Plastics, Bins, and more

Capital Budget: The holidays are truly over this week, with Council meeting on Tuesday for our regular agenda and again on Wednesday and Friday for 2019/2020 budget deliberations. The main focus of Budget Committee was our three-year Capital Budget. I wrote about the Capital Budget in my December E-News and …

Harbour East Update: Splash Pad, Cancer Survivors Garden, and Disc Golf

It was a busy evening at Harbour East-Marine Drive Community Council. There were three proposals for additions to municipal parks in District 5 before us including the Dartmouth Splash Pad, Cancer Survivors Garden, and a Disc Golf Course. I’m not sure how widely these initiatives are known, and since they …

Council Update: Fire Response, Capital Funding Requests, AT Projects

Fire Response Time: A double Council update to cover off our December 11 meeting and our very light December 4 meetingĀ (there was nothing significant to write about from December 4). One of the major items before Council was proposed changes to the fire department’s response time standards. The benchmark for …

Council Update: Spring Garden Library, Traffic Calming, Access-A-Bus

Spring Garden Branch Library Proposal: It was a rather quiet Council meeting with high-level, pre-budget presentations on municipal services taking up most of the time. The major item on the main agenda was whether to proceed with developing a new HRM driven proposal for the reuse of the old Spring …