Who’s responsible? Michele Peveril, Port of Halifax, 426-1060.
Remarks: Over the weekend, a fence went up, blocking about a quarter of the lower parking lot, a favourite stop for entering the park or just watching the ships come in. The fenced off area is to be used as staging area for construction in the adjoining port, says Peveril—the southernmost pier is being extended 80 metres in order to handle the bigger post-Panamex ships that the port hopes to lure. The project should take about 18 months, after which the fenced off area will be turned back to parking.
This article appears in Nov 18-24, 2010.
Nothing new, and they didn’t even bother to ask the public. As another example, the small parking lot just off Alderney Drive, between where Prince and King streets come down, that must have been surreptitiously sold by the city to Fares Real Estate Inc…seeing as how the Kings Landing project intends to build on it, and is currently using it to support construction. I’m not against that project, but it would have been nice if the city didn’t casually sell *our* land to private developers without making a credible stab at public consultation.
Fuck why don’t we have a public consultation process every time they mow Citadel Hill too, then complain about our taxes some more.
There obviously can’t be that much wrong in Halifax if the biggest complaints are about necessary construction fences. Or, does The Coast just like making a mountain out of a molehill?
Calvin, even better idea: why the fuck don’t we have public information or consultation processes for things that rate them, and not be so bloody imbecilic as to have them for things like mowing Citadel Hill? Make sense to you, gump?
We do, quite often, and they’re laid out very tidily here:
http://www.halifax.ca/calendar/
Governments have entire agencies dedicated to the management of real estate and I hardly think a fenced-off parking lot (gasp!) warrants one of the alarmist NIMBY circuses we call public engagement forums.
I’m pretty sure the port authority owns a portion of that parking lot. So if you go to paint your house and set up a ladder can I write an article about how thats pissing me off? STOP LOOKING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING!!!!!