A back to the future Council update! I was swamped with the demands of running an election campaign and didn’t get a chance to write a summary of the previous Council’s very last meeting at […]
Agenda September 1Agenda September 10 (Harbour East) Secondary Suites:Probably the most significant item on Council’s agenda was the proposed HRM-wide planning bylaw changes to allow for secondary units in all residential zones. A secondary unit […]
Agenda August 18 Blue Mountain Birch Cove:Blue Mountain Birch Cove was back before Council for the second time in a row and Council was once again flooded with emails in support. On the agenda was […]
Agenda July 21 Transit Fare Technology:You might recall news stories from 2018 about super-sized transit tickets coming to HRM. What was driving the new larger transit tickets were new fareboxes. The boxes couldn’t process HRM’s […]
Agenda July 7 Sidewalk Patios:My motion on Sidewalk Patios from April, was back on the agenda at Council because I was rescinding it. What gives you might ask? Did I give up on seeking more […]
Managing growth will always be challenging. Change is hard, and doubly so when it affects the places we love and cherish. Development, however, brings with it opportunities to improve our community. We don’t need to […]
Agenda, June 23 Climate Change Plan:While we’ve all been fixated on the immediate crisis that is COVID-19, we can’t forget the pressing issue of our times: climate change. The existential threat to human civilization and […]
Agenda May 26Agenda May 12Agenda June 9 It’s been a busy month at City Hall as Council met almost every day of the week through the last half of May to revise the 2020 budget. […]
Agenda April 14Agenda April 9 (hospital parkade) Banook Fishway: Regional Council’s second virtual meeting had two motions from me related to District 5 issues. First, a potential fishway between Lake Banook and Sullivan’s Pond. Once […]
Agenda April 2 Council meetings haven’t been exempt from Covid-19 disruptions. With 17 of us, plus the staff needed to hold a meeting, it’s not possible to meet in person right now due to the […]
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