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Regional Plan 5 Year Review - Kick off Event
March 1 - Lord Nelson Hotel, Imperial Ballroom
6:30 pm - Reception: All Welcome
7:00 pm - Presentation by guest speaker Calvin Brook
(followed by panel discussion)
Join us on March 1 for the official kick off of the Regional Plan 5 Year Review (RP+5), featuring a presentation by licensed architect and planner Calvin Brook. Mr. Brook is a Principal of Brook McIlroy. With twenty-five years of professional practice Mr. Brook has extensive experience in design projects ranging from individual buildings to comprehensive master plans for urban districts, campuses, parks and waterfronts in Canada and internationally.
The presentation will be followed by panel discussion by local civic leaders.
On February 9, 2012 Regional Council's Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED) Standing Committee approved the Public Engagement and Communications Plan and a revised timeline [report 4MB] to undertake the review process.
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HRM Planning in the News... |
The October 2011 initiation of both the Regional Plan 5 Year Review (RP+5), and the HRMbyDesign Centre Plan was very timely. It coincided perfectly with the announcement that The Irving Shipyard in Halifax had won the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy bid to build the next generation of ships for the Canadian Navy - a 30 year contract worth an estimated 25 billion dollars. The shipbuilding contract will create economic and population growth that accelerates our need to be smart about planning our city for a sustainable future. The topic of the Ships contract's impact on city planning has begun to emerge in the media. This site will provide a consolidated location for such stories.
Business Voice - Halifax Chamber of Commerce monthly magazine
HRMbyDesign Centre Plan - Preparing for the Future
Impact of Shipbuilding Contract on HRM
Chronicle Herald
Impacts of Shipbuilding Contract on City Planning - 21-Oct-11
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Commencement of Regional Plan 5 Year Review...
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The Regional Plan, adopted by Council in 2006, forms a comprehensive guide for the future growth and development of HRM. It presents a coordinated and integrated approach for achieving sustainable and balanced growth in a way intended to preserve the environment, maintain a strong economy, emphasize the provision of transit services, and promote communities that would be compact, well planned, vibrant and healthy. The Plan remains a strong and well-conceived blueprint for growth.
However, understanding that conditions change over time, the Regional Plan was written as a living document intended to be responsive to emerging challenges and opportunities. It therefore contains within it a mechanism requiring that it be formally reviewed and updated every five years. The first of these 5 year reviews ("RP+5") was initiated by Council on October 4, 2011 and is expected to run until September, 2012. Because the overall policy framework and intent of the 2006 Plan remains sound, the review is proposed to be an issue-based process as opposed to a rewrite of the entire document.
Detailed information on the Regional Plan 5 Year Review is here |
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