A wilderness jewel just 15 minutes from downtown Halifax has been spared from development, at least for a few years. At issue is the Birch Cove Lakes-Blue Mountain wilderness area, which has been designated as a future regional wilderness park in the HRM Regional Plan (see here). I’ve explained the development pressures on the privately […]
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Birch Cove Lakes-Blue Mountain Wilderness development proposal subject of meeting
Huge tracts of land now protected by the city’s regional plan will be turned into sprawling subdivisions, if Nova Scotia’s largest development companies get their way. The land in question comes in two chunks. The first is identified in the plan as part of the future Birch Cove Lakes-Blue Mountain Wilderness Park, consisting of about […]