HRM Residents Help Create Great Downtown Neighbourhoods
Essential to the (HRMbyDesign)
plan's development was community consultation, which included 130 presentations, four multi-day public forums, and the opportunity to comment on three drafts of the plan.
“The plan is nothing without the time that they put in,” Fillmore says. “People who came out to those consultations, who wrote their councillors, who wrote the media – wrote letters to the editor for and against, because it all goes in the mix – it’s their plan.”
The plan is based on five principles: vision, design, height, heritage and process. The encouragement of mixed-use buildings – ones which might, for example, include both residential and retail space – and an emphasis on pedestrian-friendly streetscapes fall within these dimensions.
(Excerpt from article on novascotialife.com)
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