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Halifax is interesting in that it has basically the best possible greenfield sites available on its periphery yet prices still spiked there and there are big delays in getting new supply going.

The public conversation mostly seems to be in the weeds to me. Frameworks like NIMBY-style debates around preserving nature (can't build it here, can't build it here...) get the attention but there is relatively little discussion of what good development should look like on a greenfield site (probably not towers with huge setbacks and scarce local amenities). Shifting development around based on which NIMBY fights hardest is a negative sum game while good planning is a positive sum game.