Halifax is selling off more than a dozen unused properties, and setting aside six of them for affordable housing.
At itsmeetingon Tuesday, Halifax regional council voted to declare the properties “surplus,” and classify them as either “remnant,” “extraordinary,” or affordable housing.
Under the municipality’s administrative order governing surplus properties, those classified affordable housing will be “disposed of through direct sale, or a call for submissions, open to eligible not-for-profit organizations meeting the submission requirements and program criteria” set by HRM.
Those properties include 48 Pinecrest Dr. in Dartmouth, 9 Howland Ct. in Lower Sackville, and “Lot E-1” on Brunswick Street in Halifax.
That lot is already subject to competing interests on either side of the property line. Thereportto council said HRM received requests from two property owners: the Saint Patrick’s Catholic Church Parish, located on the north side of the property, and Michael Lawen, the owner of five properties to the south. The church wanted to use the property for parking in the short term and affordable housing in the long term. Lawen told HRM his tenants already use the lot for parking, and he’s been maintaining it. But municipal real estate and planning staff found “that the subject property may be a good candidate for the development of affordable housing.”
Lot E-1 on Brunswick Street — Screenshot/HRM
库。韦恩·梅森asked staff how the municipality would ensure that property is actually used for affordable housing.
梅森说：“我不希望看到这一关键财产被扫除了10年的BS CMHC之一10％的市场利率。”“这些都是毫无用处和令人尴尬的，我不希望这一去。它必须是真实而实质性的。”
Planner Jill MacLellan told Mason the properties will be publicly advertised to give non-profits a chance to see what’s available.
“Should we get submissions to develop these properties that we think are right or that are viable, we’ll take it to council and council will make a decision whether or not these get developed for affordable housing,” MacLellan said.
MacLellan said HRM will consider outright sales or long-term leases for the properties. If there’s no response, MacLellan said staff will bring the properties back to council for reclassification. There’s no timeline on that process.
除了这三个物业外，还有另外三个先前宣布为盈余，在周二被重新分类为经济适用房：贝德福德（前逊尼西德小学）和232和234 Crichton Ave.的Scotia Dr.
工作人员建议在贝德福德（Bedford）31岁的莱斯特（Lister）博士（Lister Dr.代表该区域的蒂姆·奥西特（Tim Outhit）成功地移动了从列表中删除该属性。
Like the Brunswick Street lot, staff started looking into the property after an abutting owner, on Brockwell Street, asked to buy it for a driveway. Staff found the property was deeded to the former county of Halifax by St. Paul’s Home for Girls in 1978.
Maps showing the location of 31 Lister Dr. — Screenshot/HRM
“Upon Technical Review, the property’s history as a social housing use and relatively close proximity to amenities along the Bedford Highway (i.e. transit, grocery stores, public library, etc.) were noted to make it a good candidate for the development of affordable housing,” staff wrote.
But Outhit wanted to talk to people in the community before moving ahead with the recommendation. The residents never had any heads up, Outhit said, and he’s worried about nearby Nova Scotia Power lines.
他在市政厅告诉记者：“我只想确保它是安全的。”
“Just to say that we have a housing shortage or just to say that we need affordable housing, that every piece of land is suitable for residential development is not necessarily true. We have to look at transportation, we have some look at safety and health and certain things. So I just want a quick review of this. And then I want a little time to discuss with the neighbours and maybe how we can put a little buffer around this. It’s actually quite a pleasant green space in a district with more and more development that’s losing green space.”
Staff said another report could come back on the property within three months, and Outhit’s colleagues passed his motion to defer the item. There are more of these lists of surplus properties, including many for affordable housing, coming to future council meetings.
Councillors want cooling centres
HRM could see cooling centres opened next summer after a motion from Coun. Iona Stoddard on Tuesday.
斯托达德（Stoddard）提出了一份员工报告“关于在人力资源管理（HRM）指定地点提供冷却中心的成本和有效性。
“These cooling centres would provide some cooling comfort due to rising heat temperatures experienced, which are being influenced by global climate change,” Stoddard wrote in themotion.
斯托达德（Stoddard）在动议的一部分中写道，该动议是基于“人力资源管理中脆弱者的交流”。
第十二区 - 木堡 - 贝希维尔 - 克莱顿公园议员指出，今年夏天在人力资源管理中有多次热警告，就像在冬季提供温暖中心的方式一样，市政当局应在夏天提供冷却中心。
The motion passed unanimously.
施工噪声以较早结束
理事会于周二通过了章程修正案，要求吵闹的建筑工程停止一个半小时。
人力资源管理的细则目前允许建设没有噪音ise between 7am and 9:30pm Monday to Friday, 8am to 7pm on Saturdays, and 9am to 7pm on Sundays and holidays.
Municipal staff reviewed the bylaw and recommended keeping the end time of 9:30, but council’s Community Planning and Economic Development Committee recommended a new end time of 8pm.
议员们在周二辩论了这个想法，并以12-5投票赞成下午8点的噪音削减。
库。肖恩·克莱里（Shawn Cleary）是反对新时代的五票之一，他认为损失的生产力将使建筑花费更长的时间，并且住房更加昂贵。
The bylaw amendments also add the term “rock breaking” to the bylaw, with a cut-off time of 6pm Monday to Friday, and no allowance on weekends and holidays.
科尔尼湖健康
市政气候变化适应人员为科尔尼湖（Kearney Lake）制定了一项管理计划，并在周二的批准下，他们将安装“ Living Shoreline”和“浮动治疗湿地”，以提高湖泊的健康。
Council asked for the management plan, which also covers Little Kearney Lake and associated tributaries, last year, “with the goal of protecting lake water quality for all users.”
Thereportback to council this week, by water resources specialist Elizabeth Montgomery, “recommends that shoreline naturalization, using a combination of living shorelines and floating wetlands, be installed to capture stormwater runoff from Kearney Lake Road.”
The recommended living shoreline would prevent erosion and control stormwater running into the lake, and it would consist of consist of “Native plants and organic material such as logs, branches, haybales, and mulch are planted and woven into the shoreline.”
That’s expected to cost about $1 million, and the municipality is going to look to other levels of government for funding.
Floating treatment wetlands perform a similar function, removing phosphorus from stormwater runoff in the lake.
蒙哥马利写道：“它们通常由浮动支撑框架和种植的培养基组成，该植物与本地新兴植物种植，其根部超过框架的底部进入水柱。”
预计他们的费用为50,000美元，可以在当前的预算中容纳。
Montgomery said the municipality hopes to eventually use the Kearney Lake management plan as a framework for other municipal lakes.
HRM to write to federal government on abortion access
Despite concerns about redundancy, Mayor Mike Savage will write a letter to the federal government expressing the municipality’s support for abortion access.
As the Halifax Examinerreported last month理事会执行常务委员会推荐给信函从女性的副词,转发推荐isory Committee:
Vice chair Christine Qin Yang brought the motion to that committee following the “devastating decision” from the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“I really think it’s important to use our voice and also our platform to raise awareness and strengthen the access of HRM’s women to abortion service,” Yang said on July 7.
Yang noted abortion is legal across Canada under the Canada Health Act, and has been since 1988.
杨说：“人们需要意识到他们的生殖权利。”
库。保罗·罗素（Paul Russell）说，他不认为议会应该告诉联邦政府该怎么办。
“Whether I’m for or against [abortion] is a separate topic for discussion,” Russell said.
库。肖恩·克莱里（Shawn Cleary）said he’s in favour of a woman’s right to choose, but said there are no signs the federal Liberal government would make any move toward restricting abortion access and questioned the point of writing the letter.
The motion eventually passed 15-2, with Russell and Coun. Trish Purdy voting no.
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