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Originally Posted by Drybrain
Looks like Waye is trying to engage the neighbourhood and developers (not mutually exclusive categories) to figure out how the area can accommodate the substantial inevitable development that will occur in future, without running roughshod over the valuable architectural heritage that already exists. That sounds like planning to me, not "anti-development".
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Part of what's going on here is that he's in a tough spot because there have been so many years of bad, adversarial planning and poor communication between the city, developers, and the public.
I hope the discussion will continue to subtly move away from an obsession over minimizing height and density. I have a feeling a lot of people in Halifax, including traditional NIMBYs, would prefer narrow glass towers to squat concrete boxes. Everybody needs to accept that some increase in density is necessary for the city to work well into the future and that there are trade-offs in terms of how the added density should be handled.
On the other side of things the city needs to figure out a way to direct new development onto marginal land and discourage the demolition of good buildings. Reusing old buildings is one of the easiest ways to make a city more ecologically friendly and to preserve its character.
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