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Originally Posted by LikesBikes
Pretty satisfied with these results. Is there anywhere that the main progressive and urbanist candidate didn't win?
I'm not sure what to take of Mayor Fillmore. His background seems pretty strong (former planner, MP, etc) but his campaign was not inspiring at all. It'll be interesting to see if we get Planner Mayor or Fix Potholes Mayor. While I don't know any urban planners or politics irl, I'd think people go into that field because they want to make an impact on things, so I'm cautiously optimistic about who he'll be and what this means for HRM in terms of transit, biking, housing and overall approach to becoming a major Canadian city.
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I will give you a little background about some Halifax development or rather lack of it before you moved from Ottawa. After Purdy's wharf was built out in the eighties there arose a very loud, and effective anti- development organization that knew what levers and procedures to participate in to slow or Kill development. The group was led by a retired Dalhousie Professor that lived among the leafy streets around DAL. Phil Pacey has since passed but his group were always at public hearings loudly proclaiming that Halifax is not Toronto, blah, blah, blah. This group had the resources to delay almost everything with Imagination or design behind it.
Filmore was in the middle of a lot of this contention as a City planner. As his career progressed he and others discussed a better way and HRM by design was planned and implemented by Provincial decree by Rodney Macdonalds Provincial Government back in 2005. The 2011 Announcement of the Shipbuilding contract took development around here to a new level. Halifax went from 12 Cranes above the City in 2011 to over 24 within two years. We average over 35 now and probably will for at least the next ten years.
Fillmore now has some insight to how Federal money gets spread and having been in Ottawa for 9 Years can't hurt. We will see.
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