Quinpool Common
6069 Quinpool Road B3L1A1 Halifax, NS, Canada

"It is time HRM Council adopts and implements policy that allows for urban fruit/vegetable farming and the sale of such produce across the entire municipality of Halifax."

As one of the least food secure cities in Canada, you would think that our government would want to encourage people to grow their own food/ obtain it locally. These types of policies are so backwards, they generate unnecessary obstacles to progressive thinkers who are trying to better their communities. https://www.cbc.ca//halifax-wants-to-shut-down-market-gard

The failure of our city fathers (2/17 councilors are women) to provide anything more than subsidies for developers has resulted in Halifax becoming a shell of its former self

"By March 2020, Halifax had lost a full forty percent of its historic buildings in 11 years. Out of 104 buildings inventoried as heritage assets in 2009, 43 had been demolished. More have tumbled since then. And barring drastic action to save them, the remainder will fall to the wrecker soon. Halifax Regional Council finally spurred itself to action. To do some preservation, they would use the provincial Heritage Property Act to shape several streetscapes, which would create ...a sense of time and place through a grouping of historic buildings within the same vicinity, according to the 2019 staff report. But when Council attempted recently to save 16 of 61 properties in the Spring Garden areasome of the prettiest in the citythe whole exercise fell apart under a panicked pushback by proprietors on Birmingham, Queen and Grafton Streets. A further group of buildings scheduled for later designation was put on hold while heritage planners re-group and re-plan. You had to see the (pre-covid) March 10 Council meeting to believe it. And actually, you can see it. The video is on the city’s website, where you can watch one by one as the property-owners wring their hands, tell sob stories and plead for council to exempt their properties from the designation. The result was not a single one of the 16 properties on the agenda won a heritage designation. In my view, the owners’ tropes of travail were remarkably similar and similarly bogus."

Yet again Halifax's public green space is being sold off to the highest bidder; creating more unaffordable housing. After a petition of nearly 1000 was presented to council by Lindell Smith, Councillor District 8 - Peninsula North, to keep St. Pat's public and after the Covid-19 Pandemic proved parks to be more essential than ever for safe public enjoyment, the Halifax council is still quietly selling the St. Pat's site through back room meetings. This is yet another example ...of public land being turned into private profit. Developers profit while our city gets hollowed out. Just ask the folks at Imagine Bloomfield, Bloomfield Urban Common, Community Counts - Save St. Pat's Alexandra School, Development Options Halifax, Friends of Halifax Common, Extinction Rebellion K'jipuktuk-Halifax, Ecology Action Centre We deserve better as a city!