The Official Annapolis Valley & West Hants Projects Thread

[Mapleton_Roadie]

There appears to be some disagreement amongst some local developers in Windsor on whether a street should be allowed to remain as a dead-end or be built another few hundred metres to connect Payzant Dr to King St/ NS Hwy 1.

The street in question is set to receive a traffic circle at Wentworth Rd, and is home to the local hospital and a large high school (which currently sits at the dead-end).

One developer, who has invested heavily in building homes and now apartment buildings would like to see Payzant connected to King, making ease of access and egress for the hospital and high school for residents who live on the south side of the town/region. It would cut the 4km loop into a 400m straight route.

Municipal officials though, have given a new developer (who is constructing 3x 4 story apartment buildings and townhouses at the dead end) 7 years to possibly make the connection.

From a common sense approach, to me it would seem ideal to work on the connection sooner than later. It will be interesting to see what comes first....the extra traffic and no second egress point or the connection to King st.

[Dmajackson]

AllNovaScotia had an article today about a 215-unit development on Belcher Street, Port Williams that would include some three 5 storey apartment buildings. The village has 1'100 residents so this is a major project.

King's County Staff Report

[Mapleton_Roadie]

Originally Posted by Dmajackson

AllNovaScotia had an article today about a 215-unit development on Belcher Street, Port Williams that would include some three 5 storey apartment buildings. The village has 1'100 residents so this is a major project.

King's County Staff Report

There's a tonne of multi-level residential projects underway from Kentville to Windsor.

Brison Developments has been a big player; broadening from their usual residential projects to get involved with 3-6 storey buildings. They have competition from Parsons and a firm from Halifax, as other projects start to work their way through municipal planning waters to concrete being poured.

The proposals can be found here:
https://www.westhants.ca/planning-ad...mmittee-1.html

[MonctonRad]

Too bad there are no plans for regional commuter rail to Windsor, Wolfville and Kentville from HRM.

Sooner or later, it may become necessary. This part of the Annapolis Valley is only going to become increasingly exurban.

[Mapleton_Roadie]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Too bad there are no plans for regional commuter rail to Windsor, Wolfville and Kentville from HRM.

Sooner or later, it may become necessary. This part of the Annapolis Valley is only going to become increasingly exurban.

I remember riding the Dayliner from Windsor into the train station/Westin, as a kid.
The route used to originally run from further in the Valley with a few more stops past Windsor (Ellershouse, Mt. Uniacke, Windsor Junction, and Bedford). If i can remember correctly, it ran twice a day return. The tracks are in terrible shape, and if not completely removed until Windsor Junction, and the railbed is grown in where it isn't being used as part of the Rails to Trails program.
There's talk of this route on the Active Transportation thread in the Halifax forum.

I can't remember if they allowed rail in the new Highway 101 across the Avon River. The last rendition of the line ran across the 101 causeway parallel with the roadway.