Recent Work & Statements
Call to Action: Halifax Green Network Plan Progress Report
A Call for Action in Response to the Halifax Green Network Plan 2-Year Progress Report On February 12th, 2021 HRM's two-year progress report for the Halifax Green Network Plan was publicly released in advance of being reviewed by HRM's Community Planning &...
Submission to the Regional Plan Review Process
Introduction and Background Our HRM Alliance is a coalition of 63 organizations across health, environment, trails, business, community growth, and transportation sectors advocating for a sustainable future through greenbelting and complete communities. The Alliance...
2020 Municipal Election Toolkit
Environment and the City Halifax Regional Municipality, along with all Nova Scotian municipalities, are holding municipal elections on October 17, 2020. The results of this 2020 election will set the tone of Halifax’s locallybased environmental action for the next...
A Call for Action in Response to the 2020/21 Municipal Budget Recast
Dear Mayor Savage and Halifax Council, Our HRM Alliance is a coalition of over 60 diverse groups across Halifax Regional Municipality advocating for a sustainable future through complete communities and greenbelting. Our HRM Alliance recognizes the challenging...
Akoma Support Letter
To: Mayor Savage and Regional Council Dear Mayor Savage and Members of Halifax Regional Council, Our HRM Alliance is pleased to express our support for the Akoma Development Plans in their current form and in the requested zoning change by Akoma Holdings...
Halifax Green Network Plan User’s Guide
Why a Greenbelt? Between 1992 and 2014, Halifax nearly doubled in area but only grew in population by a fifth. To ensure continued access to nature, livable communities, and lower our tax burden we must control the sprawl of development. The solution is a greenbelt:...
The Halifax Green Network Plan has Arrived!
Environment and the City The moment that many of us have been waiting for since 2014 when the Regional Plan directed staff to create a greenbelt for Halifax has finally arrived! Halifax Regional Municipality introduced the final draft of the Halifax Green Network Plan...
Extended Ferry Service: Our HRM Alliance Letter to Council
Dear Mayor Savage and Regional Council, I am writing to you in support of Downtown Halifax Business Commission and Downtown Dartmouth Business Commission, in their campaign to keep the extended ferry service for the Alderney Ferry. While both have presented excellent...
Statement on Municipal Campaign Finance Accountability Review
Our HRM Alliance calls on the municipality to take a strong stance on promoting fairness, accountability, and public participation in the new by-law on election campaign financing regulations. In the 2016 Halifax Regional Municipal election, Councillors received 34%...
Our Asks for the Halifax Green Network Plan Consultation
HRM has scheduled the Public Engagement sessions for the Halifax Green Network Plan, where they are looking to gather information from the public about how we can best implement data collected in the first two phases of the Plan. We’re advocating for the HGNP to...
Why is housing affordability an environmental issue?
Jenny Lugar, Our HRM Alliance Coordinator A couple weeks ago, I spoke to CBC’s Pam Berman about the latest draft of the Centre Plan and expressed that my primary concern with the Plan, which is intended to direct growth in the Regional Centre for the next 15 years, is...
22 Years of Squandering Growth in Halifax
“I have travelled to many places, but rarely did I find such a rich and well preserved landscape as around Halifax.” This is how Douglas Olsen, President and CEO O2 Planning+Design, described Halifax at the first stake holder session for the Halifax Green Network...
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