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HRM Council Approves Carbon Bombs for Carlton Block

FHC Editor 2024-01-14 No Comments

On January 23 HRM Council voted to give the Dexel / Lawen development even more benefit but still without any public benefit in exchange. For almost a decade HRM Council…

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…

Public Hearings for Multiple Towers, September 7th

FHC Editor 2021-08-26 No Comments

HRM hosted two public hearings on September 7, 6pm (day after Labour Day) via zoom and approved Case 20761 and Case 22927. The huge public opposition to these proposals was…

Chronicle Herald: Group concerned with proposed central Halifax highrise developments

FHC Editor 2021-07-06 No Comments

Noushin Ziafati – July 6, 2021 An advocacy group says it’s concerned that a set of proposed highrise developments in central Halifax will negatively impact the historic Carlton Street neighbourhood…

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 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…

3-D Model Shows the Big Picture

FHC Editor 2019-06-10 No Comments

Development Options Halifax wants the city to require 3-D models for all developments and for changes proposed with the Centre Plan. Learn why in this interview from News…

Public hearing – “Pizza with the Works” to be Served

FHC Editor 2019-05-20 No Comments

At 6pm, Tuesday May 21, at a Public Hearing at City Hall Mayor and Council will decide what their appetite is for a proposed 8-storey + penthouse building at the…

Dear Centre Plan, Show us your 3-D models!

FHC Editor 2019-04-30 No Comments

FHC has joined other citizens to form Development Options Halifax. Recently the public saw our 3-D print model of 4 towers that 2 developers want to build at Carleton, College,…

Heritage is Greater than the Sum of the Parts

FHC Editor 2019-01-29 No Comments

In early January FHC as part of Development Options Halifax held a media conference to show a model of two massive developments (16-, 20-, 26- and 30-storey towers) proposed for…

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HRM Council Approves Carbon Bombs for Carlton Block

Chronicle Herald: Rally Against Robie Street demolitions

Public Hearings for Multiple Towers, September 7th

Chronicle Herald: Group concerned with proposed central Halifax highrise developments

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

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

3-D Model Shows the Big Picture

Public hearing – “Pizza with the Works” to be Served

Dear Centre Plan, Show us your 3-D models!

Heritage is Greater than the Sum of the Parts

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