HALIFAX, N.S. — A piece of legislation passed in 2002 called The Lunenburg Commons Act was helped clarify the public use of a 22-acre parcel called ...
HALIFAX, N.S. — A piece of legislation passed in 2002 called The Lunenburg Commons Act was helped clarify the public use of a 22-acre parcel called Blockhouse Hill. That was property set aside after the settlement of the town in 1753. In 2017, the Liberal MLA for Lunenburg introduced amendments to that act, allowing the elected representatives to make the property available for development. And not surprisingly, many people who are finding out about this now are not pleased.
And the rationale for the development that it provides affordable housing, which is what Lunenburg needs, affordable housing, will not happen up there. That is not the place it's going to happen. And that's not how it's going to happen through a private developer.Because the Request for Proposal stipulates that the developer has to provide of all the housing they would develop up there, 10 percent of those units would be affordable units.
But the plan is a plan. It's not an ironclad mandate for council to go ahead on a big decision like this. I'm not saying that everything Council decides should be up for a plebiscite and we don't want to subject that or ourselves to always running to council, but on a decision of this magnitude. And given that the public appears to have been unaware of the change in legislation, it is really incumbent on town, the town council and the mayor to speak to us directly.
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