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>X-From_: daalders@ns.sympatico.ca Tue Sep 19 09:13:51 2000 >Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:12:14 -0300 >From: daalders@ns.sympatico.ca (david aalders) >Reply-To: daalders@ns.sympatico.ca >Organization: none > >Hello, > The Urban Development Issues Committee at the Ecology Action Centre >has put together a series of questions that you can use when the >candidate(s) for the municipal election come to your door. > Some of the questions may not seem to be relevant to your area, but >are meant to illustate the connection between how HRM has been >developing, and the livability of our communities, which has been >sufferring from traffic and degraded wilderness areas. > We also hope to use this questionairre as a building block to link >various groups that are concerned about how HRM has been developing. > >Thank you for your time and interest, David Aalders for Urban >Development Issues Committee. >> > 1.How would you deal with traffic congestion throughout HRM: > a. more roads or more transit? >> >> 2. How would you change development in our/your community to improve the livability of our community. >> >> 3. How would you promote local employment? >> a. create/enhance mainstreet nodes >> b. encourage home based business >> c.there is no need for local employment >> >> 4. Are you in favor of higher density, mixed use development that >> enhances your community. 5. Does the candidate support the need for regional planning as a priority for HRM? >> >> 6. What are the ecological costs of development in your community? ie. >> air pollution, increased greenhouse gas emissions, degraded rivers. 7. Would the candidate support a local PAC and a regional PAC,WAB(planning advis comm, watershed advisory board)? > >8.. Are heritatge issues a concern in your community?If yes, what are >> they and why? If no,why? >> >> 9. Is there adequate parkland/wilderness areas in your community? What is missing? Does the candidate view undeveloped land as future development, or as potential parkland/wilderness areas? >> > 10. Would the candidate crackdown on dilapitated >buildings-residential and commercial, in the community? >> > In your opinion, does the candidate have a grasp of the links >between how HRM has >> developed in the past, and the present problems that HRM is >> experiencing? Are they willing to look at new ways of development, or >> are they predisposed to old patterns of development? -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- A word from our lawyers ... Don't forget ... COPYRIGHT material, such as newspaper/magazine articles cannot be posted on sust-mar without the owner's permission. It's against the law. CROSS-POSTINGS (messages from other lists) are also discouraged. In either case, why not tell us something about the issue in your own words? Or ... send a clipping along with the URL where the original can be found, or directions how to join the list it came from? Takes a few more minutes, but makes for a more interesting sust-mar ... :)
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