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 …

Council Update: Cannabis production, Barrington Street

Cannabis Planning Bylaws: A rather routine Council agenda. The main item of interest was the public hearing to consider some narrow amendments to the Regional Plan and each community’s specific planning bylaws to regulate cannabis production facilities. This wasn’t a public hearing into the controversial Nuisance Bylaw changes regarding smoking, …

Council Update: The end of the Smoking Debate, Parking Pass Changes

Nuisance Bylaw (Smoking): It was a very short Council meeting on Tuesday. The main item on the agenda was the return of the staff report on possible changes to the Nuisance Bylaw regarding smoking. Council previously changed the Nuisance Bylaw in response to the coming legalization of cannabis to ban …

Council Update: Cogswell, Garbage Truck Side Guards, United Memorial Church

Cogswell: The major item on Council’s plate actually preceded the regular agenda. It was the Committee of the Whole discussion on the 60% design plan for the Cogswell Interchange Lands. The Cogswell was built in the 1960s as the first interchange for the planned Downtown expressway (Harbour Drive). Harbour Drive …

Council Update: Lancaster/Woodland, Khyber, Community Services Bus Pass

Lancaster/Woodland: The main item on the agenda at Tuesday’s Council meeting for District 5 was my motion to have HRM and the Province cooperate on a design study for the intersection of Lancaster Drive, Woodland Avenue, Highway 118 and Mic Mac Boulevard. The reason that the design study needs both …

Council Update: Home in Dartmouth Crossing, Local Street Bikeways, Heritage Incentives, Names

Dartmouth Crossing Residential: Before getting into Tuesday’s Council agenda, I wanted to spend a few minutes explaining a debate that we had on Thursday at Harbour East Community Council about residential development in Dartmouth Crossing. The developer of Dartmouth Crossing, North American Development Group, wants to construct two apartment buildings …