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Exploring the built Environment in Halifax NS. from the Mind that brought you @hfxshippingnews
Halifax NS Katılım Haziran 2013
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@DenySully The province took over the responsibility for providing public housing at amalgamation, and have built 0 new units since. Even if the city raised taxes to build affordable housing, it’s not permitted to do so.
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HRM saying no money for much needed public housing (we rather protecting existing homeowners from excessive property taxes!)
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One example of why Halifax's housing shortage is so acute: by mid-2022 we were about at our 2030 planned levels
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some of the oldest footage of crews responding to a fire, and there is some dumbass, in the way and oblivious.
Adam Bunch@TODreamsProject
3. No one's sure how it started. Maybe faulty wiring or a stove. Whatever it was, the flames spread quickly. Soon, every firefighter in the city was desperately trying to contain the blaze. There's even footage—the oldest film we have of Toronto (via Library & Archives Canada):
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@Tim_Bousquet @HalifaxWater i think its the same break, just with a more precise location in the newer tweet. That location suggests its one of the large feed pipes, and could be well over 100 years old
builthalifax.ca/2016/10/01/the…
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Dal is closed because of a water main break. I'm not sure if these two breaks are related to each other, or which connects to Dal, but @HalifaxWater has announced two breaks:
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@RCAF_TACNAV @ArchInAcadie @sharongenest the developer could have applied to demolish the building when they proposed the project, then been able to do it 2 years after the permit was denied as of right. If the developer wanted it gone, there was a path to that, easier then dropping it.
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The CBC has just posted an article on the Carleton St. collapse.
It appears to have been an accident, and a costly one at that, both for Halifax's diminishing built heritage, and for the owner, whose project is now stalled while investigators try to determine what went wrong.
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@spcushing @MatthewHalliday I believe that’s what they call the engineers report.
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@MatthewHalliday @spcushing iirc condos require an engineers report every 5 years addressing coming maintenance issues.
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The WWII Air defences of Halifax. builthalifax.ca/2023/01/13/wwi… This is a very rough post (images are massive, text incomplete)but to good not to share
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@builtHFX Found the research outline and bibliography. You might find this site helpful if you haven't seen it: militarybruce.com/abandoned-cana… He groups closed bases by province, has quite a few v. small sites in NS.
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@KidinaSandbox besides the issue Canada lacks ground based Air Defence, Missiles have replaced guns since the late 1950's
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@builtHFX This is so interesting! I tried to do a research project a few years ago on repurposing former military sites. Ii didn't get off the ground but I found out about many sites in Hfx-Dartmouth I wasn't aware of.
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@prpartington Thank you! i see the video is posted as well facebook.com/events/8049351…
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@DawnChiasson someone lead a tour of the area years ago, but i couldn't attend.
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@katieyingram that area has mostly developed according to that plan.. though the green space across novalea from merv sullivan is apartments.
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Did you know that in the '60's there was a proposal to turn the Rockhead prison site into a multi-use space?
#halifax #NovaScotia
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