[halifaxboyns]

Good - I always found that part of the planning system in HRM to be a little backwards to me. Out here in Alberta, there is no appeal of a decision to rezone a property. Once council has made that decision, that's it. You get to apply for all the uses in the zone and if you can make the building fit in the box, so be it.

Unfortunately our planning system has 'discretionary' uses - which are always subject to appeal, which typically end up being the developments we want most (mixed use or multi-residential development).