{"content":[{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.147059,"top":0.090986,"width":0.008296999999999999,"height":0.017076999999999995}},{"text":"One of the thrusts of the regional plan that should not be lost in the centre plan is the \n idea of fairness and common sense decision making. \n 1.3 Community Well-being: \n o To add to the “more discussion needed.” I still feel there is a lack of diverse and \n equal representation when it comes to soliciting feedback from the community. It \n may be too late at this stage; however, it would have been nice to see the \n comments broken down by geographic area or by some population \n demographics to see who/where the feedback is coming from and note \n who/where we may have missed in the process. Perhaps this could be explored \n further in future consultations, and I would love to help. \n o Accessibility considerations are not clear. I would like to see how accessibility is \n being considered in this plan – pedestrians also include those with limited \n mobility. \n o Food security – is there anywhere in the plan that limits the number of ‘big box \n stores’? is there a way the plan can help promote small and medium-sized \n businesses? The social economy is growing in Nova Scotia, and the plan should \n create the space or incentives to allow for local business to thrive based on CED \n components principles (including, social enterprises, co-operatives, non-profits). \n See greater integration with the Economic Strategy. \n o The current design suggests there may be significant ground floor rental space \n available for long periods of time. Can HRM provide support for the use of these \n spaces by non-profits or for use for “storefronts” like the old RBC building was \n used to communicate the centre plan to local communities?","bbox":{"left":0.176481,"top":0.090015,"width":0.699455,"height":0.37119199999999997}},{"text":"•","bbox":{"left":0.147077,"top":0.123855,"width":0.008296999999999999,"height":0.017076999999999995}},{"text":"Economic Development \n The Centre Plan proposal lacks strong connection the current economic strategy. \n The previous economic strategy (http://www.halifaxpartnership.com/en/home/economic-data- \n reports/economic-strategy/2011-2016-economic-strategy.aspx) had the development of the \n regional centre as it’s “first priority”. Planning and economic development stakeholders worked \n together to plan and execute investments like the Argyle St streetscape project designed to \n grow the regional centre.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.474087,"width":0.7546219999999999,"height":0.11643799999999999}},{"text":"Halifax’s first strategy written in 2005 featured the importance of the regional centre as the \n economic heart of the city. This early plan facilitated a new integration of planning and \n economic development priorities like HRM By Design and a new convention centre that have \n proved important to the success of our region. These strategies saw the connection between \n encouraging regional centre development and successful economic growth for the whole \n region. That connection is not as strong in our current Centre Plan.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.603344,"width":0.7401690000000001,"height":0.09898399999999996}},{"text":"Local Context \n • We need to keep it simple while providing developers and staff direction. Ideally, I’d like \n to see short, 3-4 paragraph character descriptions that can provide that missing local \n flavour without getting into detail area plans, which we have tried to avoid. Parks need \n to be at the table for this. We are building a lot of new units, some of which requires \n parks and greenspace to be a part of it (especially far North End). \n • The Keesmaat Report calls for a plan to work on schools, health, where complete \n streets/public realm will be improved to support the proposed centres, etc. In Ontario, \n my understanding is they are legally required to do this stuff in a Comprehensive Plan","bbox":{"left":0.117665,"top":0.731113,"width":0.759613,"height":0.14874699999999996}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.872353,"top":0.921364,"width":0.009938000000000002,"height":0.015152000000000054}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}