Request for contacts-Urban development committee.

Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:54:36 -0400
From: daalders@ns.sympatico.ca (david aalders)
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> Dear sustmar subscribers
> I am sending out this query to all community groups in HRM. As a result
> of the Daltech
> symposium last week, the Urban Development issues committe at the
> ecology action centre has started again. Momentum generated at that
> symposium to do more than just talk about poor urban design and traffic
> woes, rather, the time has come to act.
>      Many groups, whether resident assoc, wilderness protection, or
> heritage groups, have been fighting developers and perhaps even the city
> staff, each on their own, with help from places like sustmar. I think
> the time has come to link the various groups so as to share info and
> experience, and perhaps eventually to form alternative visions of what
> we
> want our communities and our city to look like. At first glance, the
> interests of  say
> environmental groups would not be the same as a residents assoc, but
> past the
> surface, lies the fact that we are all fighting to make and keep our
> communities
> safe, and pleasant to live in. To that end we need to look at issues
> such as traffic on a
> HRM wide scale.
>    As an afterthought, consider what MIGHT have happenned if such links
> existed back
> in the early 90's when halifax city went ahead with Bayers lake, despite
> the concerns
> raised by several  separate groups.
>      If such a link is of interest to any of you, please feel free to
> contact me by email, or by
> phone 477-6514.
> Thanks for your time david aalders.



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