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Originally Posted by Waye Mason
the peninsula is big and HRM can hit all its growth targets easily without starting to put 12 story towers on Oakland or Cedar or Cork or Leeds. The whole peninsula is not now, will not be zoned highrise.
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Even though I used to 🞵🞵🞵🞵 at getting your name right, I certainly have paid attention to your posts. I respect your opinions and like a lot of your ideas. I admire your commitment to the city.
You know much more about these city planning cases than I do, so I am prefacing this as more of a request to correct what I'm not understanding about the process you're using as evidence.
I'm not sure how realistic HRM's targets are, nor am I certain that HRM's plans are broadly considering the unavoidable financial impact of sprawled infrastructure and public services debt if we do not achieve an adequate level of density throughout the city within a given frame of time. Yes, we assign numbers to the titles of these plans and give them legality for a duration -- but that says nothing about the density numbers we need to be hitting because of projected debt we will incur if we do not.
Hasn't the approach to density during the development of this Central Plan been lite on numbers and, instead, more reliant on residential consensus building?
Are we challenging ourselves or are we doing something politically safe? Do you have confidence in HRM's density targets?
I'm still trying to get over my bewilderment from so many people opposing 13 storeys...
It's not as though this proposal was a surprise replica of Purdy's Wharf.
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