sust-mar: PLEASE - Call your Councillor TODAY (before they meet tonight)

Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:46:28 -0300
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Hello,

Good news! -  Council voted 19-4 in favour of putting in place HRM's growth
strategy that limits new roads and housing subdivisions in "unserviced
areas" on the fringes of metro Halifax.  Thank you everyone for helping to
influence this decision.

BUT NOW, there's pressure to relax those controls for just 3 districts in
HRM - Eastern Shore, Fall River-Waverley, Preston-Porter's Lake.

Councillors need to know that the Regional Plan is about the HRM as a
UNIFIED REGION.  Regional planning is about guiding the growth of Halifax
across the WHOLE region.  Favouring some districts over others will lead to
exactly the kind of disjointed and unbalanced growth the Regional Plan is
supposed to address.

It simply does not make sense to relax development controls in just these 3
districts.  For instance, relaxing controls on the Eastern Shore is to
invite a string of commuter subdivisions in that area.  This will cause
increased pressure to twin Highway 107 - at everyone's expense.  There are
also emergency access, safety, health, and liability issues that arise for
HRM (and all ratepayers) that result from uncoordinated growth of
residential subdivisions.

****  YOUR ACTION URGENTLY NEEDED  **********

I know you've heard it before - but your individual voices make a huge
difference (and already have in the progress so far).  But still, it is
critical in the next 24 HOURS for you to PLEASE call your Councillor and let
them know that the Regional Planning controls must be applied to the entire
region of Halifax.

Find your Councillor's phone number here:

Please look down this list for your local Councillor - and give them one
quick phone call (and leave a voicemail if they're not there).....

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

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You could also phone

Mayor Peter Kelly
Ph:  490 4010
Fax:  490 4012
Email:  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!

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Please send this message far and wide.  Thanks once again for your wonderful
help!

Susanna Cheng,
TRAX, Ecology Action Centre
Ph:  429 0924
http://www.trax.ns.ca

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