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Originally Posted by Drybrain
No, what they spent years on was the road and infrastructure design. There was never any specific planning for the private land use, and only a vague suggestion of the population target. So this is new, and it sounds like the consultation and planning will be much faster—initiated today and wrapped up next year.
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Not sure how important it is but they did have community consultation with things like building models. The 3,400 number seems to come out of infrastructure constraints.
I think it's pretty obvious that a lot of this stuff is driven by economics and it's just not possible to see many years into the future. Nobody in the 90's had any clue what 2020's development in Halifax would be like. Many aspects of a development like this aren't direct outputs from community consultation. Anyway, it seems like a positive sign and breaking up the blocks is really good.
It would be nice if they tried to bring back a little of what was demolished in this area for Cogswell. How about rebuilding the Pentagon building or Hauser stores, maybe in a different location and form? It could provide a new place for the dockyard clock.
They also have the ability to add some real height here and that could add more flexibility with budgets for shorter buildings in other areas or public space. A mix of heights would be more interesting and there are no older residential areas around that would be impacted.