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Originally Posted by JHikka
There's something to be said for larger regional plans and something to be said for more focused urban planning.
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It is all about allocating decision making appropriately. Just as how some decisions should be federal while others should be provincial.
In Halifax some decision-making is done at a sub-municipal level. For example, there are community councils and councillors get discretionary funding to spend within their districts. Regional council does not make all decisions.
For regional planning exercises like the sewage treatment of the early 2000's or the more recent $750M transit strategy, it is much better to be able to make the decisions in a regional council type setting.