Development Issues Questionairre for Municipal Election 2000

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From: Anna McCarron <amcarron@istar.ca>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:27:20 -0400
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>X-From_: daalders@ns.sympatico.ca Tue Sep 19 09:13:51 2000
>Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:12:14 -0300
>From: daalders@ns.sympatico.ca (david aalders)
>Reply-To: daalders@ns.sympatico.ca
>Organization: none
>
>Hello,
>    The Urban Development Issues Committee at the Ecology Action Centre
>has put together a series of questions that you can use when the
>candidate(s) for the municipal election come to your door. 
>    Some of the questions may not seem to be relevant to your area, but
>are meant to illustate the connection between how HRM has been
>developing, and the livability of our communities, which has been
>sufferring from traffic and degraded wilderness areas.
>     We also hope to use this questionairre as a building block to link
>various groups that are concerned about how HRM has been developing.
>
>Thank you for your time and interest, David Aalders for Urban
>Development Issues Committee.
>>
> 1.How would you deal with traffic congestion throughout HRM:
>  a. more roads or more transit?
>>
>> 2. How would you change development in our/your community to improve the
livability of our community.
>>
>> 3. How would you promote local employment?
>>     a. create/enhance mainstreet nodes
>>     b. encourage home based business
>>     c.there is no need for local employment
>>
>> 4. Are you in favor of higher density, mixed use development that
>> enhances your community.
5. Does the candidate support the need for regional planning as a priority
for HRM?
>>
>> 6. What are the ecological costs of development in your community? ie.
>> air pollution, increased greenhouse gas emissions, degraded rivers.
7. Would the candidate  support a local PAC and a regional PAC,WAB(planning
advis comm, watershed advisory board)?
>                                                                         
>8.. Are heritatge issues a concern in your community?If yes, what are
>> they and why? If no,why?
>>
>> 9. Is there adequate parkland/wilderness areas in your community? What is
missing? Does the candidate view undeveloped land as future development, or
as potential parkland/wilderness areas?
>>
>  10. Would the candidate crackdown on  dilapitated
>buildings-residential and commercial, in the community?
>> 
>   In your opinion, does  the candidate have a grasp of the links
>between how HRM has
>> developed in the past, and the present problems that HRM is
>> experiencing? Are they willing to look at new ways of development, or
>> are they predisposed to old patterns of development?



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