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Reject NS Minimal Planning Requirements

FHC Editor 2025-02-26 No Comments

(Feb 24, 2025) FHC’s submission to HRM on the Nova Scotia Government’s proposed changes to Minimal Planning Requirements* asks that they be rejected. The changes are without adequate public information,…

Amend the Centre Plan, Protect Halifax Trees! Public Hearing, May 21

Friends of FHC 2024-05-18 No Comments

Halifax planning is killing urban trees. Cutting trees for the QEII hospital is part of a bigger problem. The Centre Plan reduced public open space requirements and increased lot coverage…

FHC to HRM Community Planning & Economic Development Standing Committee

FHC Editor 2023-09-13 No Comments

Dear HRM CPED Committee Members: Re- Wanderers Grounds – FHC Comments FHC’s FOIPOP information received Sept 11and attached below shows that the Wanderers Grounds was used almost exclusively by Derek…

FHC Response to HRM’s ‘in principle’ Halifax Common Master Plan

FHC Editor 2023-03-14 No Comments

We invite you to read these detailed comments on the ‘in principle’ Halifax Common Master Plan (the “Plan”) that FHC recently sent to HRM staff. Collectively it took us thousands…

Chronicle Herald: Rally Against Robie Street demolitions

FHC Editor 2022-04-10 No Comments

[Stephen Cooke | Posted: April 9, 2022] While a portable speaker played the sound of Joni Mitchell singing “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,” Haligonians dismayed by…

Lloyd Alter: Groundbreaking Study Highlights How Design and Development Decisions Affect Embodied Carbon

FHC Editor 2022-03-01 No Comments

“Groundbreaking study on embodied carbon comparing new build to retrofit and addition in Halifax Canada ignored by city, author told to ‘stop making things up.” Should be studied closely,…

Thank you to 500+ Citizens Who Petitioned For Changes to Centre Plan

FHC Editor 2021-10-26 No Comments

A round of applause in gratitude to the 500+ citizens who asked the Mayor and Council Plan for All Citizens by making changes to the Centre Plan before adopting it.…

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…

2020 – FHC Centre Plan Submission

FHC Editor 2021-01-24 No Comments

Dear Centre Plan Staff, Please find included in this email two previous submissions from Friends of Halifax Common (2018 & 2016) . Our suggestions seem even more relevant in this…

Cancel the Proposed WSP 23-storey high-rise-Case 22927

FHC Editor 2021-01-10 No Comments

Dear HRM Planners, Mayor and Council Re: Cancel the Proposed WSP high-rise- Case 22927 The proposed Westwood high-rise tower at 2032-2050 Robie Street has already been turned down by HRM Mayor…

FHC Requests HRM Auditor General Review Public Consultative Process as a Charter Matter

FHC Editor 2020-08-19 No Comments

August, 2020-Letter to HRM Auditor General Re- Review of HRM Planning’s public consultative process as a Charter matter This letter (accompanied by 10 brief case studies) is to request that…

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…

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Reject NS Minimal Planning Requirements

Amend the Centre Plan, Protect Halifax Trees! Public Hearing, May 21

FHC to HRM Community Planning & Economic Development Standing Committee

FHC Response to HRM’s ‘in principle’ Halifax Common Master Plan

Chronicle Herald: Rally Against Robie Street demolitions

Lloyd Alter: Groundbreaking Study Highlights How Design and Development Decisions Affect Embodied Carbon

Thank you to 500+ Citizens Who Petitioned For Changes to Centre Plan

FHC Submission to HRM Review of Regional Plan

2020 – FHC Centre Plan Submission

Cancel the Proposed WSP 23-storey high-rise-Case 22927

FHC Requests HRM Auditor General Review Public Consultative Process as a Charter Matter

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

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