by Rachel Ward The provincial government unfairly bent the rules in order to allow Joe Ramia finish the Nova Centre on time, said lawyer Victor Goldberg in court Thursday. Goldberg, of the Cox Palmer law firm, represents the Thiel family, which own several development companies and 10 percent of the commercial rental space in downtown...
Serious men in hats: Halifax council preview, November 18, 2014 meeting
Rec centres This issue is quite complicated, and I’ll probably have more to say about it after the meeting. The short of it is this: HRM adopted a policy for rec centres in 1997. Big rec centres that serve large areas would be paid for directly from the city’s general fund, but community rec centres,...
Closed rooming house has long police record
雷切尔哈桑Yildiz病房,房间的主人ing house at 2179 Gottingen Street, says he was “very, very shocked” when the city shut down his rental property and evicted its tenants on October 30. City inspectors and the fire marshall, says a city spokesperson, had determined the property had “serious electrical, structural and...
Council re-cap, October 28, 2014 meeting
Development proposals Wellington Street This development proposal from Dino Capital has its neighbours greatly concerned. At issue are four adjoining parcels—1034, 1042, 1050, and 1056 Wellington Street—with a house on each that long ago were divided into apartments. The properties have “as a right” approval for additions to the houses that would result in a...
Council recap, October 21, 2014 meeting
Taxes Residential property taxes were a huge issue in the first decade of this century, when the housing market was overheated and assessments were going up 20 percent and more in some neighbourhoods. Through that period, council didn’t raise the tax rate, but because of the soaring assessments, the actual tax bill went up hugely […]
Minority Report: Council preview, October 21, 2014 meeting
Tomorrow’s council meeting will be dominated by a discussion “fiscal direction.” This is a complicated collection of different policies and political priorities, and I can’t do it justice without hearing the discussion first. So I’ll report back on that Wednesday. Other items of interest: Free wifi downtown Ten years too late, the city is looking...
Community groups mull appealing St. Patrick’s–Alexandra ruling to Supreme Court of Canada
by Hilary Beaumont In the end, it will likely be a court and not the city that decides the fate of the St. Patrick’s–Alexandra property. Last week, the province’s highest court, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, sided with JONO Developments in the company’s bid for the school property. Long battle for the school site The...
Community groups out, Jono Developments back in: Appeal court reverses St. Patrick’s Alexandra ruling
By a 2-1 vote, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeals has ruled in favour of Jono Developments’ appeal of the St. Patrick’s Alexandra decision. There’s a long and tortured history to this issue, which can be summed up as follows: September, 2000: HRM council adopts surplus school procedure, requiring that such school sites first be offered to...
Shakespeare by the Sea, Motherhouse lands, Lighthouses: Council preview, October 7, 2014 meeting
Shakespeare by the Sea building In June, a miscreant set fire to the Shakespeare by the Sea building in Point Pleasant Park, making it unusable. The building was constructed as a park canteen in 1969, sat empty for many years, and then was occupied by SBTS in 1994 for office, storage, and for theatre space...
Halifax’s deck collapse: See what other properties are owned by landlord Darin Sweet
A deck collapse last month in Halifax’s south end at 921 Brussels Street sent six people to the hospital. In the aftermath of the horrific incident, Paul Pettipas, the CEO of the Nova Scotia Home Builders’ Association, told the Chronicle Herald that “in my opinion there was no maintenance done on this deck and the landlord’s responsible.” That comment...
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