审查员了解到，该市以190万美元的价格将格拉夫顿街的一个街区部分卖给了新星中心开发商乔·拉米亚（Joe Ramia）。王子和萨克维尔街之间的格拉夫顿街（Grafton Street）街区被纳入了现在正在建设的拉米亚（Ramia）诺瓦中心综合大楼。出售街道与城市政策相矛盾，反对在市中心创建“超级块”并打破市中心的街头网格。
Final construction permit issued for Nova Centre
The city has issued the last building permit needed to construct the Nova Centre. A project as large and as complex as the Nova Centre must obtain a number of permits—in this case 13. They range from relatively minor permits removing existing sewer lateral connections to the city’s main, to two blasting permits, to four temporary...
Thiels: The province is helping Joe Ramia poach our tenants
经过giving Joe Ramia’s Nova Centre project an exemption to the city’s planning laws, the province unfairly gave Ramia the ability to compete for tenants now housed in Thiel family properties, says a brief filed with the court. The Thiels own several properties in the financial district, including the BMO building, the TD Centre, and the Royal Bank Tower. Collectively,...
Like clockwork, Hollis Street bike lane delayed again
Hell-bent on development, Canada Post, and E-voting: council recap, August 5, 2014 meeting
新的访问 - 林登·利亚鸭池（Linden Lea Duck Pond），赋予非公民投票权：理事会预览，2014年8月5日会议
哈利法克斯市议会会议周二第三week in a row. The unusual back-to-back meetings allow councillors to take the next four weeks off, so Tuesday’s will be the last council meeting until September 9. The meeting starts at 1pm, and I’ll be live-blogging it via the Examiner’s @hfxExaminer Twitter account. Tenders Council will...
The Forum is saved: City council recap, July 29, 2014 meeting
The take away news from yesterday’s council meeting is that the Forum and Centennial Arenas were saved, a new Dartmouth 4-pad arena will be constructed, and four other single ice pad arenas will be closed: Lebrun, Devonshire, Gray, and Bowles. But before getting into those specifics, the whys and the wherefores, let’s step back and...
东部通道开发，开伯尔与论坛：哈利法克斯委员会预览，2014年7月29日会议
Review of investigation into Holly Bartlett’s death criticizes Halifax police actions
A review of the Halifax police investigation into the death of Holly Bartlett finds that “based on the evidence presented to the reviewers,” her death was accidental. The report, however, goes on to fault the police department’s investigation, noting that the investigating officers jumped to a conclusion early on, before collecting all the evidence, and then kept...
大陆常见可能是非洲狗公园Kerfuffle的解决方案
Tensions were high at the beginning of last night’s public consultation over how to replace the Africville dog park, but as the meeting progressed dog owners and city staff seemed to zero in on a possible solution agreeable to all: A new, large and fenced dog park at the Mainland Common. To back up, former residents...