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Tip: Your message to SUST-MAR must be html-free. So, BEFORE you hit SEND, please go to your "Format" pull-down menu and select "Plain text." Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________ Dear Fellow Environmentalists and Community Minded People in HRM You may have heard about the Public Consultation that HRM held Monday night on planning in HRM and the 90 day moratorium on development. The vast majority in attendance were vehemently opposed to the moratorium and any freeze. Speaker after speaker lambasted the HRM planning. There were a handful of people from EAC, a representative from Transport 2000, and a planning student who spoke in favour of the moratorium and smart planning. Folks, we spend a lot of time fighting for healthier communities, opposing bad development, or advocating for more protected areas in HRM. Now we have a chance to have all these objectives embedded in a framework; to have a process which embodies the principles that we fight for on a daily basis. The HRM may not have it all right and they may have made some errors, but they were heading in the right direction, the direction we have been encouraging them to head in. I say were. The developers are knocking them back, challenging the whole notion of planning, and we are largely nowhere to be seen. We need the naturalists, the recreational anglers, health advocates, planners, environmentalists, watershed people, cyclists, orienteers, joggers, transit advocates, bird watchers, pesticide by-law supporters, advocates for the disabled to get out and support the need for smart planning. HRM's initiatives won't solve many of our problems but it will give us a framework. Let's fight one big battle now rather than many small battles over many years. Try to attend one of the next two meetings, particularly the one in Beaverbank. Share your concerns with your Councillors and Mayor. Attend the Public Hearing in March. Public Consultation Beaverbank, Feb. 19, 7:00-Sackville High School Halifax West, Feb. 23, 7:00-283 Thomas Radall Drive, Hfx. Public Hearing March 30 www.halifax.ca/regionalplanning 902-490-5857 Mark -------------------- Mark Butler Marine Issues Committee Coordinator Ecology Action Centre 1568 Argyle Street Suite 31 Halifax, NS B3J 2B3 902.429.2202p 902.422.6410f ----------------------- ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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