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Halifax Common Master Plan Approval Delayed by HRM Standing Committee

FHC Editor 2021-12-08 No Comments

HRM’s Community and Economic Development Standing Committee met on Wednesday, Dec 8, and agreed to delay approving the Halifax Common Master Plan just released on Friday, December 3, 2021. FHC’s…

FHC Submission to HRM Review of Regional Plan

FHC Editor 2021-07-17 No Comments

We are deeply concerned about recent incursions into the Halifax Common… …from proposed multiple high rises (16-, 28-, 29- and 30-storey and ~900 cars – similar in mass to the…

FHC to HRM Staff- The Halifax Common Needs Good Planning Please!

FHC Editor 2021-07-12 No Comments

FHC executive members recently met with HRM planning staff to remind them of the importance of good planning and protection for the future of the Halifax Common under the the…

Carlton Block’s “Upward Creep” Proposals Ignore Both Public Concerns and HRM Regional Plan Policy Considerations

FHC Editor 2021-07-04 No Comments

Media Release July 4, 2021 –For immediate release KJIPUKTUK (Halifax) HRM’s response to significant public concerns over two massive Spring Garden Road high-rises that will overwhelm and negatively impact the…

FHC to Premier-Don’t Approve a Pool Building Before Public Consultation and a Plan

FHC Editor 2021-04-14 No Comments

FHC are asking the Nova Scotia Legislature not to approve legislation to permit new building on the Central Common for HRM’s proposed Aquatic Centre. A public consultation process for the…

Letter to Premier Rankin-Protect the Halifax Common

FHC Editor 2021-03-17 No Comments

March 17, 2021 Dear Premier Rankin and Minister Macguire, RE: Legislative Protection for the Halifax Common The 235 Halifax Common was granted “to and for the use of the inhabitants of the…

Herald Op Ed: Why do HRM’s mayor and council hold the Common in such contempt?

FHC Editor 2020-07-01 No Comments

K’JIPUKTUK (Halifax) On June 23, the Halifax Common, Canada’s oldest and largest, turned 257. There is good news. The 1994 Halifax Common Masterplan goals committed to by the city continue…

Rick Howe – Province’s Parkade Unplanned

FHC Editor 2020-01-26 No Comments

It’s time to write the Premier- premier@gov.ns.ca. Tell him that the Provincial government’s announcement for a parking garage and steam plant surrounding the Nova Scotia Museum on the Halifax Common…

Rick Howe Interview – No More Parking on Common

FHC Editor 2019-11-08 No Comments

The provincial government has plans to build a new $29.5 million parking garage by the Museum of Natural History for the Halifax Infirmary. Peggy Cameron, co-chair of Friends of Halifax…

Halifax Infirmary parkade plan draws criticism

FHC Editor 2019-11-04 No Comments

Chronicle Herald, Nov 4, Francis Campbell The new parking plan for the Halifax Infirmary site is drawing criticism. “It’s clearly the case that the hospital is not even thinking about…

Planning A Carlton Street Super Block Isn’t Urgent – It’s Premature, Piecemeal and Peculiar.

FHC Editor 2019-02-07 No Comments

Why exactly are Mayor Savage and HRM Council following the lead of the Lawen/Dexel and Rouvalis developers who want to break rules and jump ahead of HRM’s planning process to…

Rick Howe 95.7- Carlton Street Area- Conservation District or Developers’ Demolition Dream?

FHC Editor 2018-10-03 No Comments

Next steps for 2 proposals for 16-, 20-, 26- & 30-storey towers beside Carlton Street, (Halifax’s only Heritage streetscape?) will be a review by the Heritage Advisory Committee and then…

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Halifax Common Master Plan Approval Delayed by HRM Standing Committee

FHC Submission to HRM Review of Regional Plan

FHC to HRM Staff- The Halifax Common Needs Good Planning Please!

Carlton Block’s “Upward Creep” Proposals Ignore Both Public Concerns and HRM Regional Plan Policy Considerations

FHC to Premier-Don’t Approve a Pool Building Before Public Consultation and a Plan

Letter to Premier Rankin-Protect the Halifax Common

Herald Op Ed: Why do HRM’s mayor and council hold the Common in such contempt?

Rick Howe – Province’s Parkade Unplanned

Rick Howe Interview – No More Parking on Common

Halifax Infirmary parkade plan draws criticism

Planning A Carlton Street Super Block Isn’t Urgent – It’s Premature, Piecemeal and Peculiar.

Rick Howe 95.7- Carlton Street Area- Conservation District or Developers’ Demolition Dream?

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