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HALIFAX, N.S. — Surprise provincial legislation aimed at speeding up housing development would instead dramatically increase property taxes and could damage affordable housing programs, argued HRM councillors on Monday.
The bill will give some developers expedited services, including freezing all municipal permit and development fees. “I don’t know how you would protect the environment, how do you protect good design, if one person with no planning knowledge ,” Savage said. “We don’t want to look back in 20 years at some development and say ‘yeah, that was built in a hurry by a new convoluted process.’”
For example, to pay for water, wastewater and transportation infrastructure in the Port Wallace development area in Dartmouth alone would mean a four per cent increase to municipal taxes “and that’s just one development I’m using as an example,” O’Toole said.Coun. Lisa Blackburn came armed with an example of her own: Beaver Bank, which has only one main road. There is a wildfire risk and concerns about evacuation routes, she said.
“I know that you know that municipalities in Nova Scotia are not the roadblock to housing,” argued Coun. Pam Lovelace . “Many developers that are not building to their capacity right now identify market forces as the fundamental barrier to building, such as labour shortages, cost of borrowing, cost of materials, ongoing supply chain challenges.”
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