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Thursday, May 26, 2011 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
An alliance against sprawl
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Alliance looking for more community groups to join Green belt plan for HRM already underway Health, environment, conservation, trails groups among the members RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
He said developers should have to pay for additional services. “We have to take control over our destiny,” he said. “People aren’t getting what they want, they’re taking what they’re given.” Paul MacKinnon with the Downtown Halifax Business Commission said first the residential market seeped away from downtown, and then it was retail. Now office space is high-tailing out of downtown for cheaper rents in business parks. “It’s an alarm bell,” he said. Touching on the health impacts of driving cars instead of walking, Menna MacIsaac with the Heart and Stroke Foundation said sprawl is costly. Inactivity in HRM costs the provincial health care system about $16 million a year, she said. “There is an obvious link between lifestyle and health, and that link also exists between one’s health and their built-in environment,” she said.
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An alliance of community do-gooders has risen to battle sprawl. Seventeen community groups from all over HRM have joined forces under the banner Our HRM Alliance to push for sustainable growth as council gears up to review the Regional Municipal Panning Strategy later this year. They even have a theme song: Joel Plaskett’s Love This Town. Representatives publicly announced the alliance and launched a website during a press conference in Halifax yesterday. “We really hope the alliance will play a key role in making change,” said Mark Butler with the Ecology Action Centre. “It goes beyond a group hug for downtown.” Walter Regan with the Sackville Rivers Association, said the megadevelopments eating up thousands of acres are subsidized by taxpayers.
“It’s really an alliance of residents and community groups coming together to talk about the future of HRM.” COUN. JENNIFER WATTS, WHO ATTENDED YESTERDAY’S PRESS CONFERENCE
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