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Governor's Brook development, Mainland South, HRM

Contents:

• Master Plan
• Excerpts from the public hearing held by the Chebucto Community Council on February 03 and 12, 2003
• Media articles on the development

Master Plan, Part-1 and Part-2

In addition, the Kyoto Protocol has implications here. A major conference of multi-stakeholders held at York University in Toronto during July 2003 was clear on the negative impacts of urban sprawl and its implications to global warming! Developments as these are expected to act as deterrents to urban sprawl ^{1, 2, 3, 4}!

Select features of the proposed development as per HRM's staff reports d/November 20, 2002 and d/February 28, 2003, Case 00066:

Areas along McIntosh Run, Governor's Run and Colpitt Lake comprising approximately 245 acres will be deeded to the Municipality as passive and conservation areas constituting 70% of the total area (cf. Master Plan, Part-1).

Further, of the 156 acres proposed for development, 51 acres or 33% will be dedicated as active parkland or conservation within the development (cf. Master Plan, Part-2).

Master Plan, Part-1:

Master Plan, Part-2:

Excerpts from the public hearing held by the Chebucto Community Council (CCC) on February 03 and 12, 2003

I, Shalom M. Mandaville, representing the international research group, Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax (SWCSMH), was not properly quoted below by HRM's staff. At no time did I oppose the development. We are the ones to conduct the first ever extensive predictive modelling of the watershed together with varied chemical/biological limnology. Below I was recommending certain recces to the HRM to implement in order to protect the watercourses in perpetuity!

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Unlike most speakers against the development, an immediate local residents' group in District-18 where the development is located came out in strong support of the development:

HRM staff's select response:

Select articles in the media on the proposed development by Kimberley Lloyd:

• Concerns expressed by a residents' group, the Williams Lake Conservation Company, on a proposed major development, July 30, 2002
• Subdivision afoul of bylaws - critics; Spryfield proposal roasted at forum; February 04, 2003
• Development fight headed to court; January 13, 2004
• URB denies group's third bid to bar development; November 16, 2004
• Williams Lake lands still a go; January 7, 2005
• Developer wants $10,000 from community group; March 11, 2005
• Housing project OK'd, Opponents of Williams Lake development mull strategy; January 11, 2005  

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