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Hello,
Thank you everyone for your efforts in support of the interim growth controls
leading up to the Regional Plan. We are now in the critical period where
Mayor and Councillors are deciding whether to vote "Yes" or "No" to the
recommended growth controls put forward by regional planning staff.
If you don't want Halifax to be a car-dependent, traffic-congested, and smoggy
city, this is your chance to have your views taken into account in Council's
upcoming vote. The best way now is to call your local Councillor! (Find phone
number below.)
{By way of background ... At the Public Hearing on Tuesday and Wednesday, the
Ecology Action Centre, the Sierra Club, residents' associations, academics,
and individual residents all spoke out for interim growth controls. However,
much of Council's attention was taken up by the pleas of individual landowners
and construction industry reps, most of whom spoke in defence of their own
private property rights and interests.}
We need to tell Councillors that there is more at stake than private property
rights and interests. We need to give a voice to our collective rights - to
clean air, to streets that are not congested with motor traffic, healthy water
resources, less consumption of land, a good quality of life that does not
depend on getting around by car. It is critical for Councillors to hear the
voice of the broader community.
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Find your Councillor's phone number here:
Please look down this list for your local Councillor - and give them one quick
phone call. Tell your Councillor that you support the interim growth
controls. Let them know it's a good idea to control developments outside
metro Halifax because you are concerned about air pollution and smog, about
rising asthma and obesity rates, depletion of groundwater resources, and
traffic congestion. Let your Councillor know that it's important they make a
decision that's good for the quality of life of everybody in HRM.
Albro Lake - Harbourview (District 9)
Councillor Jim Smith
Phone: 902-490-4692
Fax: 902-490-4743
Cell: 902-229-8887
E mail: smithj@halifax.ca
Bedford (District 21)
Len Goucher
Home: 902-832-8902
Fax: 902-832-8903
Cell: 476-0021
Email: gouchel@halifax.ca
Cole Harbour North - Cherrybrook (District 4)
Councillor Ron Cooper
Phone: 902-462-4887
Fax: 902-435-8031
Cell: 902-476-7551
Email: cooperr@halifax.ca
Connaught - Quinpool (District 14)
Councillor Sheila Fougere
Phone: 902-490-6331
Fax: 902-490-6354
Cell: 902-452-3209
Email: fougers@halifax.ca
Dartmouth - Woodlawn (District 7)
Councillor Condo Sarto
Phone: 902-434-6463
Fax: 902-435-8487
Cell: 902-476-8586
Email: sartoc@halifax.ca
Downtown Dartmouth (District 10)
Councillor John Cunningham
Phone: 902-465-2463
Fax: 902-464-8243
Cell: 902-476-4810
Email: cunninj@halifax.ca
Fairview - Clayton Park (District 15)
Councillor Russell Walker
Phone: 902-443-8010
Fax: 902-443-6513
Cell: 902-497-7215
Email: walkerr@halifax.ca
Eastern Shore - Musquodoboit
(District 1)
Councillor Steve Streatch
Musquodoboit Valley Office: 902-384-2109
Eastern Shore Office: 902-889-4010
Fax: 902-384-3900
Email: streats@halifax.ca
Eastern Passage - Cole Harbour South (District 5)
Councillor Harry McInroy
Dartmouth Office Phone: 902-462-6178
Fax: 902-462-6175
Cell: 902-221-4805
Halifax Office Phone: 902-490-7234
Support Office
Phone: 902-490-4050
Support Office
Fax: 902-490-4122
Email: mcinroh@halifax.ca
Halifax Downtown (District 12)
Councillor Dawn Sloane
Phone: 902-490-4752
Fax: 902-490-4759
Cell: 902-488-4812
Email: sloaned@halifax.ca
Halifax North End (District 11)
Councillor Jerry Blumenthal
Phone: 902-455-9868
Fax: 902-490-4066
Cell: 902-476-4811
Email: blumenj@halifax.ca
Hammonds Plains - Timberlea
(District 22)
Reginald Rankin
Phone: 902-876-0146
Fax: 902-876-4304
Cell: 902-499-3744
Email: rankinr@halifax.ca
Lower Sackville (District 20)
Robert P. Harvey
Phone: 902-864-4160
Fax: 902-869-4031
Cell: 902-488-4820
Email: harveyb@halifax.ca
Northwest Arm - South End (District 13)
Councillor Sue Uteck
Phone: 902-425-1724
Fax: 902-490-6013
Cell: 902-221-7651
Email: utecks@halifax.ca
Preston - Porter's Lake (District 3)
Councillor David Hendsbee
Office: 902-829-2465
Fax: 902-829-3620
Cell: 902-483-0705
Email: hendsbd@halifax.ca
Prince's Lodge - Clayton Park (District 16)
Councillor Debbie Hum
Cell: 476-7212
Office: 490-6807
Ofice Fax: 490-5124
Email: humd@halifax.ca
Purcell's Cove - Armdale (District 17)
Councillor Linda Mosher
Phone: 902-477-8618
Fax: 902-479-4680
Cell: 902-476-4117
Email: mosherl@halifax.ca
St. Margaret's Bay - Prospect (District 23)
Gary Meade
Phone: 902-826-3336
Fax: 902-826-3337
Cell: 476-4123
E mail: meadeg@halifax.ca
Spryfield - Herring Cove (District 18)
Councillor Stephen D. Adams
Phone: 902-477-0627
Fax: 902-479-4252
Cell: 902-497-8818
Email: adamss@halifax.ca
Upper Sackville - Beaver Bank
(District 19)
Councillor Brad Johns
Phone: 476-1234
Fax: 902-869-4749
Email: johnsbr@halifax.ca
Waverley - Dutch Settlement (District 2)
Councillor Krista Snow
Phone: 902-860-1206
Fax: 902-860-0833
Cell: 902-476-7206
Email: snowk@halifax.ca
Westphal - Waverley (District 6)
Councillor Brian Warshick
Phone: 902-490-4440
Work: 902-490-4058
Cell: 902-488-3800
Fax: 902-490-4441
Email: warshib@halifax.ca
Woodside (District 8)
Councillor Bruce Hetherington
Phone: 902-463-6827
Fax: 902-464-8250
Cell: 902-488-4808
Email: hetherb@halifax.ca
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You could also phone
Mayor Peter Kelly
Ph: 490 4010
Fax: 490 4012
kellyp@halifax.ca
The best way to get your view heard is to make a phone call. However, please
feel free to write to your Councillor too!
Thank you so much for your help. It's been a bit of a marathon - but it's all
worthwhile.
Cheers,
Susanna Cheng, TRAX
Ecology Action Centre
www.trax.ns.ca
ph. (902) 429-0924
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