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Submissions to HRM's Regional Planning process
Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax (SWCSMH)
May 12, 2006 
Contents:
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Introduction on our involvement
- Formal submissions during year-2004
- Formal submissions during year-2005
- Formal submissions during year-2006 (includes our submission to the Regional Council for the public hearing on May 16, 2006)
Introduction on our involvement
We had participated in the regional planning process from its initial conception in 2002! Representatives of our society attended several of the public meetings organized by the HRM's staff over the years.
Formal submissions during year-2004
- Submission to the Regional Council Public Hearing on May 04, 2004- Interim Growth Management Strategy, Regional Planning - Proposed Amendments District 1, 2 & 3
Formal submissions during year-2005
- Our submission/critique on the final draft (#2) of the Regional Plan, HRM: December 18, 2005; an addendum to our December 18th submission:
- Ref. rp2005_02: "Enact a Lawn Fertilizer Bylaw banning the use of phosphorus containing fertilizers similar or superior to the year-2001 bylaw of the City of Minneapolis"
- Ref. rp2005_03: "Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in the effluents of STPs (sewage treatment plants) with focus on those discharging into lakes and rivers"
- Ref. rp2005_04: "All studies relating to potential impacts on lakes and rivers should be conducted by a qualified limnologist; and all studies should also include the professional designations/credentials of all the participants"
- Ref. rp2005_05: "Set up a civil service LAKES AUTHORITY in order to restore lakes, address public concerns, and related aspects"
- Ref. rp2005_06: "Set up scientifically credible Lake Carrying Capacities (LCC) prior to any further development with urgent focus on Morris, Russell, Kearney, and Papermill Lakes"
- Ref. rp2005_07: "Abandon the `paranoia' about onsite septic systems notwithstanding several negative studies of the HRM which are not based on sound published science"
- Ref. rp2005_08: "Immediately alter the T-o-R of the Dartmouth Lakes Advisory Board-DLAB to vastly enhance its competence at the pragmatic levels"
- Ref. rp2005_09: "Most stormwater treatment that HRM's several staff allude to at public hearings/meetings is only Erosion & Sediment Control, and not the more severe `post-development stressors'"
- Ref. "KNOWLEDGE/info.html": DVD+R disk for use only on a computer DVD Reader with a wide range of info, PDF versions of two of our studies (among 50+), 20 of our half hour Tv videos (among 323), our musicals on the Shubenacadie Lakes, etc.
Formal submissions during year-2006
- Our formal written submission (85 pages) dated January 30, 2006 on the Draft #2 of the HRM Regional Plan
- Our written submission (6 pages) dated May 09, 2006 to the Regional Council for the public hearing to be held on May 16, 2006 on Draft #3 of the Regional Plan
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