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Tip: Your message to SUST-MAR must be html-free. So, BEFORE you hit SEND, please go to your "Format" pull-down menu and select "Plain text." Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________ Hello, Thank you everyone for your efforts in support of the interim growth controls leading up to the Regional Plan. We are now in the critical period where Mayor and Councillors are deciding whether to vote "Yes" or "No" to the recommended growth controls put forward by regional planning staff. If you don't want Halifax to be a car-dependent, traffic-congested, and smoggy city, this is your chance to have your views taken into account in Council's upcoming vote. The best way now is to call your local Councillor! (Find phone number below.) {By way of background ... At the Public Hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Ecology Action Centre, the Sierra Club, residents' associations, academics, and individual residents all spoke out for interim growth controls. However, much of Council's attention was taken up by the pleas of individual landowners and construction industry reps, most of whom spoke in defence of their own private property rights and interests.} We need to tell Councillors that there is more at stake than private property rights and interests. We need to give a voice to our collective rights - to clean air, to streets that are not congested with motor traffic, healthy water resources, less consumption of land, a good quality of life that does not depend on getting around by car. It is critical for Councillors to hear the voice of the broader community. ****************************************** Find your Councillor's phone number here: Please look down this list for your local Councillor - and give them one quick phone call. Tell your Councillor that you support the interim growth controls. Let them know it's a good idea to control developments outside metro Halifax because you are concerned about air pollution and smog, about rising asthma and obesity rates, depletion of groundwater resources, and traffic congestion. Let your Councillor know that it's important they make a decision that's good for the quality of life of everybody in HRM. Albro Lake - Harbourview (District 9) Councillor Jim Smith Phone: 902-490-4692 Fax: 902-490-4743 Cell: 902-229-8887 E mail: smithj@halifax.ca Bedford (District 21) Len Goucher Home: 902-832-8902 Fax: 902-832-8903 Cell: 476-0021 Email: gouchel@halifax.ca Cole Harbour North - Cherrybrook (District 4) Councillor Ron Cooper Phone: 902-462-4887 Fax: 902-435-8031 Cell: 902-476-7551 Email: cooperr@halifax.ca Connaught - Quinpool (District 14) Councillor Sheila Fougere Phone: 902-490-6331 Fax: 902-490-6354 Cell: 902-452-3209 Email: fougers@halifax.ca Dartmouth - Woodlawn (District 7) Councillor Condo Sarto Phone: 902-434-6463 Fax: 902-435-8487 Cell: 902-476-8586 Email: sartoc@halifax.ca Downtown Dartmouth (District 10) Councillor John Cunningham Phone: 902-465-2463 Fax: 902-464-8243 Cell: 902-476-4810 Email: cunninj@halifax.ca Fairview - Clayton Park (District 15) Councillor Russell Walker Phone: 902-443-8010 Fax: 902-443-6513 Cell: 902-497-7215 Email: walkerr@halifax.ca Eastern Shore - Musquodoboit (District 1) Councillor Steve Streatch Musquodoboit Valley Office: 902-384-2109 Eastern Shore Office: 902-889-4010 Fax: 902-384-3900 Email: streats@halifax.ca Eastern Passage - Cole Harbour South (District 5) Councillor Harry McInroy Dartmouth Office Phone: 902-462-6178 Fax: 902-462-6175 Cell: 902-221-4805 Halifax Office Phone: 902-490-7234 Support Office Phone: 902-490-4050 Support Office Fax: 902-490-4122 Email: mcinroh@halifax.ca Halifax Downtown (District 12) Councillor Dawn Sloane Phone: 902-490-4752 Fax: 902-490-4759 Cell: 902-488-4812 Email: sloaned@halifax.ca Halifax North End (District 11) Councillor Jerry Blumenthal Phone: 902-455-9868 Fax: 902-490-4066 Cell: 902-476-4811 Email: blumenj@halifax.ca Hammonds Plains - Timberlea (District 22) Reginald Rankin Phone: 902-876-0146 Fax: 902-876-4304 Cell: 902-499-3744 Email: rankinr@halifax.ca Lower Sackville (District 20) Robert P. Harvey Phone: 902-864-4160 Fax: 902-869-4031 Cell: 902-488-4820 Email: harveyb@halifax.ca Northwest Arm - South End (District 13) Councillor Sue Uteck Phone: 902-425-1724 Fax: 902-490-6013 Cell: 902-221-7651 Email: utecks@halifax.ca Preston - Porter's Lake (District 3) Councillor David Hendsbee Office: 902-829-2465 Fax: 902-829-3620 Cell: 902-483-0705 Email: hendsbd@halifax.ca Prince's Lodge - Clayton Park (District 16) Councillor Debbie Hum Cell: 476-7212 Office: 490-6807 Ofice Fax: 490-5124 Email: humd@halifax.ca Purcell's Cove - Armdale (District 17) Councillor Linda Mosher Phone: 902-477-8618 Fax: 902-479-4680 Cell: 902-476-4117 Email: mosherl@halifax.ca St. Margaret's Bay - Prospect (District 23) Gary Meade Phone: 902-826-3336 Fax: 902-826-3337 Cell: 476-4123 E mail: meadeg@halifax.ca Spryfield - Herring Cove (District 18) Councillor Stephen D. Adams Phone: 902-477-0627 Fax: 902-479-4252 Cell: 902-497-8818 Email: adamss@halifax.ca Upper Sackville - Beaver Bank (District 19) Councillor Brad Johns Phone: 476-1234 Fax: 902-869-4749 Email: johnsbr@halifax.ca Waverley - Dutch Settlement (District 2) Councillor Krista Snow Phone: 902-860-1206 Fax: 902-860-0833 Cell: 902-476-7206 Email: snowk@halifax.ca Westphal - Waverley (District 6) Councillor Brian Warshick Phone: 902-490-4440 Work: 902-490-4058 Cell: 902-488-3800 Fax: 902-490-4441 Email: warshib@halifax.ca Woodside (District 8) Councillor Bruce Hetherington Phone: 902-463-6827 Fax: 902-464-8250 Cell: 902-488-4808 Email: hetherb@halifax.ca ****************************************** You could also phone Mayor Peter Kelly Ph: 490 4010 Fax: 490 4012 kellyp@halifax.ca The best way to get your view heard is to make a phone call. However, please feel free to write to your Councillor too! Thank you so much for your help. It's been a bit of a marathon - but it's all worthwhile. Cheers, Susanna Cheng, TRAX Ecology Action Centre www.trax.ns.ca ph. (902) 429-0924 ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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