Shape Your City Halifax updates

Halifax Urban Greenway & Active Transportation to Point Pleasant Park The municipality is extending the Halifax Urban Greenway Extension and AAA Bikeway from Beaufort Avenue and Bellevue Avenue to Point Pleasant Park.

What We Heard report released for Halifax Urban Greenway & Active Transportation to Point Pleasant Park

Almon Street Active Transportation Extension TO BE POPULATED

👋 Options prepared and upcoming engagement scheduled for Almon Street Active Transportation Extension

Both presented options shuffle people cycling onto Bloomfield.

Rainy Sunday morning is a good time to complete the Woodside-Shearwater active transportation survey! It ends April 15.
The survey is straightforward and doesn't require you to analyze the proposal in detail... but I did that before looking at the survey, so here are my quick thoughts. 1/4

And a few new projects added:

Hail Pond Park/Dunbrack Street Multi-Use Path www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca/hail-pond-du...

2026-2030 Strategic Plan www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca/municipal-st...

Seniors Recreation Services Plan www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca/seniors-recr...

What We Heard reports added for:

Transom Drive Park Project www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca/transom-driv...

Lake Banook Coordination Plan www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca/lake-banook

Some updates and additions:

Survey is up for Woodside-Shearwater Active Transportation Planning:

Halifax is looking to make the tactical changes to the Isleville/Young/Kaye intersection permanent.

Survey: www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca/NWbikewaycon...

More info: www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca/NWbikewaycon...

Talk Transit Welcome to Talk Transit – a platform for current and potential transit users to let Halifax Transit know their thoughts on important transit topics.

Halifax Transit have updated the bus stop on Inglis across from SMU with features for blind and partially-sighted folks. Includes a new mid-block crossing. They'll be having some engagement sessions at the stop Mar 27 and Apr 9.

Couple updates:

Woodside/Shearwater AT public engagement session Apr 1 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the South Woodside Community Centre (5 Everette Street, Dartmouth). There will also be a survey posted Apr 1.

No real updates in the last week. But a reminder that the Midtown AAA Bikeways and social media surveys close on Monday.

Midtown: www.shapeyourcityhalifax.ca/midtownbikew...

Social media: www.halifax.ca/home/surveys

Social Media Survey Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

Here’s a direct link to the survey so you don’t have to go through the Twitter link:

The city is doing engagement on social media and information sharing but not using Shape Your City, “Halifax Regional Municipality’s engagement hub.”

Anyway, check out the survey.

Portland Street - Cole Harbour Road Functional Planning Study Project Background Portland Street and Cole Harbour Road are an important gateway and link between communities of Dartmouth and Cole Harbour with the rest of the Halifax Regional Municipality. It is e...

Portland Street - Cole Harbour Road
Functional Planning: timelines have been pushed back. Previously ended with "Presentation to Regional Council for Approval (Early 2025)," now Fall 2025.

Case 2023-01495 - Halifax Grain Elevator 2023-01495: Amendments to the Regional Centre Secondary Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law to Implement the Halifax Grain Elevator Land Use Risk Assessment Study Recommendations Last Upda...

Halifax Grain Elevator: public comment period has been extended until Friday, March 7, 2025 at 4pm.

Planning Applications Public engagement is required as part of most planning application process and since the outbreak of Covid 19 online engagement has become in important tool. This site provides alternative methods of ...

Other recent changes:

Planning Applications: PLANAPP 2024-00458, Zzap Consulting Ltd. is requesting, on behalf of the property owner, requesting to amend the existing development agreement for the Brunello Links to enable a 'Nordic/Wellness Spa' as a permitted use within the golf course.

Midtown 'AAA' Bikeways Yellow lines --> Midtown Bikeway routes for investigation. Blue lines --> Connections to other AAA bicycle routes Halifax Regional Municipality is working to build comfortable and convenient cyc...

Thanks to @envirojen.bsky.social and @lecwhite.bsky.social a third in-person public engagement has been added for the Midtown AAA Bikeways project:

March 6, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the John W. Lindsay YMCA (5640 Sackville Street, Halifax), in the Family and Child Development Room on the third floor

Midtown 'AAA' Bikeways Yellow lines --> Midtown Bikeway routes for investigation. Blue lines --> Connections to other AAA bicycle routes Halifax Regional Municipality is working to build comfortable and convenient cyc...

Midtown AAA Bikeways update:

Open House posters and FAQ added to document library

Midtown AAA Bikeway Public Engagement

Hello! Still working on regular automated updates but I can tell you that the Halifax Midtown AAA Bikeways project now has a site with concepts and a survey:

👋 Should have more to say soon 😀