Supreme Court of Canada clears way for developer's lawsuit against HRM

[Keith P.]

Putting this here as I'm unsure of the best location for this thread, mods feel free to relocate.

HRM just lost (at significant cost to taxpayers no doubt) a case at the Supreme Court of Canada regarding Annapolis Group and the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes area, which they refused to allow to be developed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...suit-1.6625087

Council's decision was bad at the time and looks even worse now.

The Herald has a story on it as well with additional info:

https://www.saltwire.com/halifax/new...uit-100786173/

[q12]

Wow, this could be a game changer for growth. It's much closer to the core and would be far easier to get proper mass transit up and running to.

[Saul Goode]

Originally Posted by Keith P.

Council's decision was bad at the time and looks even worse now.

Why does it look worse?

Let's not get hasty here. Annapolis has a long hill to climb to win this case. All it's won is the right to a trial, to try to prove its case.

The SCC decision says absolutely nothing about the merits of Annapolis's position or whether HRM council acted wrongly. It had nothing to do with that.