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Building height debate continues to challenge vision of halifaxfuture by ferujkll sdff
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But building height, that eternal lightning rod, emerged as asource of debate when HRM by Design unveiled its proposed plans forthe northwest Halifax neighbourhood Wednesday night. The plans emerged from a public meeting held last month in thearea, one of 11 neighbourhoods identified as high-profile districtsfor developers this year. The plan for central Halifax and Dartmouth is meant to encouragegrowth in the urban cores but with guidelines to ensure thatdevelopment doesn"t affect the character of the differentcommunities, said the city"s urban design manager AndyFillmore. But the heights proposed for Robie, Young and Windsor streets coulddo the opposite, Phil Pacey argued. Turning the land around the Halifax Forum into an area that allowsfor 24-storey buildings could prompt the municipality to sell theheritage property to construction firms, said the spokesman for theHeritage Trust of Nova Scotia.
Pacey said he worried that low-rise affordable housing units in thearea might also be sold, their places taken by large-scaledevelopments. Others said they believed the population could not support the kindof density proposed and that empty highrises would discouragesmall-scale development. But a real estate consultant said setting guidelines wouldencourage investment in the area. Developers want stability, RossCantwell said, and by allowing for this type of height, the citycould expect to see firms include more affordable housing orcommunity space as part of their overall plans. The profit from theextra height would make it possible.
And if Halifax doesn"t create a plan for growth in the area,Cantwell said, municipal services will follow the population to thesuburbs, where developers face few hurdles. "They"re outbuilding at the pace that we can do on thepeninsula, so we"re slowly eroding everything to thesesuburban areas," he said. "If all the growth keeps bleeding to the suburban areas,they"re going to get all the ice rinks, and all theinfrastructure"s going to go there, because that"swhere everyone"s going to live." Halifax"s community design advisory committee will makerecommendations to council by October about creating bylaws for the11 development hot spots. ( lfraser@herald.ca ). I am Computer Hardware & Software writer, reports some information about laptop cooler usb , compact bluetooth keyboard.
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