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Throughout the spring and summer of 2005, the Regional Planning staff team continued to meet with stakeholder groups including residents’ associations, special interest groups, the development industry, committees-of-council, non-governmental organizations, as well as staff and officials from other levels of government and adjacent municipalities. Due to the level of interest, meetings with stakeholders continued through the fall-winter of 2005/06 and into the spring of 2006.
Stakeholder meetings:
- Tripartite Forum (Mi’kmag) Culture and Heritage Working Committee
- NS Department of Natural Resources (management and staff)
- Halifax Urban Greenways, Halifax Regional Trails Association and HRM Bikeways Advisory Committee (joint meeting)
- Nova Scotia Community College (Akerley Campus) Integrated Science Class
- Municipality of East Hants (planning and engineering staff)
- Councillor Kent’s Town Hall Meeting
- Terrain Group’s Lunch and Learn (with planning, engineering and surveying staff)
- Sport and Recreation Commission
- Shubenacadie Watershed Environmental Protection Society
- Halifax Chamber of Commerce
- Housing and Income Support, NS Department of Community Services (with director and senior managers)
- Chaswood Co-housing Project Group, Middle Musquodoboit
- Urban Development Institute (attend regular monthly meetings)
- Members of Development Industry (concerning developments in progress)
- Landowners (lands north of former Sackville Golf Course)
- Representatives of Peninsula South Residents’ Association
- Capital District Task Force
- Sheet Harbour Chamber of Commerce
- Spryfield Residents Association, Friends of Whimsical Lake and the Chocolate Lake Community Association (joint meeting)
- St. Margaret’s Bay Stewardship Association
- Five Bridges Wilderness Trust
- Rural Developers - Eastern Region
- Rural Developers - Western Region
- Sackville Drive Business Association
- Cities and Environment Unit, Daltech
- Halifax Utility Coordinating Committee
- Greater Burnside Business Association
- Transportation Sub-Committee (Halifax Chamber of Commerce)
- Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission
- Halifax Watershed Advisory Board
- Toronto's Clean Air Coalition (delegation visiting HRM)
- Coalition of Community Organizations (St. Margarets Bay)
- Oakfield Golf Club Long Range Planning
- Ecology Action Centre (Urban Issues, Coastal, Wilderness, Energy and Transportation Sub-committees)
- Community Action on Homelessness
- Affordable Housing Association of Nova Scotia
- Dartmouth East Rotary Club
- Heathy Housing Healthy Communities Project (Spryfield)
- Land Surveyors Association of Nova Scotia
- American Concrete Institute
- Halifax Regional Homeowners Association
Outreach can take many forms...
 
The Regional Planning project office also participated at the 1st Family Expo trade show, May 14 - 15, 2005 at the Dartmouth Sportsplex with an information booth and display. Children visiting the booth helped to locate their community on a map of HRM and used coloured stickers to mark the spot. Photographs of wildlife, beaches and trails had lots of appeal to young HRM residents.
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