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Originally Posted by fenwick16
Posted June 16 2010
According to the allnovascotia.com, WM Fares is buying 55 acres from Sobeys off Dunbrack in Rockingham and is proposing 922 units in a mixed use community that would include single dwellings, and low rise buildings from 3 - 11 storeys in height. It was unveiled tonight at St Benedict's Catholic Church
Does anyone have more details?
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from the Herald:
Rockingham development plan raises questions
Residents at public meeting concerned about more traffic, school overcrowding
By EVA HOARE Staff Reporter
Thu. Jun 17 - 4:54 AM
A major subdivision that a developer wants to build in Rockingham was outlined to neighbourhood residents Wednesday night in hopes they will give the new community the green light.
Rockingham South, proposed by the WM Fares Group, is planned for Sobeys-owned land off Dunbrack Street that formerly housed a radio transmitter.
Cesar Saleh, who works for Wadih Fares, made a PowerPoint presentation to about 150 residents at a Clayton Park church, saying the developer wanted to come up with a design that would complement the well-established existing community.
The project, if it makes it through public hearings, community council and regional council, would include 115 single-family homes, 77 townhouses and 580 other residential units in six buildings ranging from three storeys to 11, Saleh told the crowd.
Rows of townhouses would act as transitional units between the homes and the larger buildings.
About 2,200 people altogether would live in the subdivision, at a density figure of about 90 people per hectare (36.5 per acre), much lower than in developments in downtown Halifax and elsewhere on the peninsula, Saleh said.
"I think this is the lowest density we have developed under," he said. "For all intents and purposes, this is still a very low density."
About 70 per cent of the site is now green space and 31 per cent of it would stay that way, Saleh said. The plan also includes buffer zones of 18 to 30 metres in some areas along the perimeter, and single-family homes would abut established neighbourhoods, he said.
Existing wetlands would also be incorporated into the development, as would a tennis court and a walking trail, he said.
Some "minor" commercial space would take up main floors of mixed-use buildings that are part of the plan.
"We feel very strongly about this site," Saleh said. "We think we have put our best foot forward here."
No development plan has yet been submitted to Halifax Regional Municipality.
Many residents who lined up to speak during the public meeting at St. Benedict’s Roman Catholic Church were mostly concerned about increased traffic in their neighbourhoods. Some worried about the ability of local schools to accommodate more children.
Saleh said entry to the subdivision would be limited to Knightsridge Drive and Wentworth Drive, with access to the mixed-use buildings via Farnham Gate Road.
He said a traffic consultant was on hand at the meeting to take note of the residents’ concerns and the developer would take them into account.
Saleh also said that if the project goes ahead, there will be no access to the subdivision through Tremont Drive.
"We never contemplated connecting Tremont," he said. "This will be governed by a contract."
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http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1187799.html
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