Green space for concrete concern
Posted Jan 9, 2010 08:50:09 AM.
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The Halifax Common may be getting some renovations and there are differing opinions on how it should go forth. The ball diamond at the corner of Cogswell and North Park streets is swampy because it lies at the bottom of a Citadel Hill spring.
To clean it up, the city is proposing a concrete event plaza.
Councillor Dawn Sloane says there are wider sidewalks, better lighting and an upgrade to the fountain in the plan.
“We have been looking at this for a couple of years and unfortunately we’ve had to put it on the back burner,” Sloan tells News 95.7. “Now we’re able to go forward with it.”
According to Beverly Miller with the Friends of the Halifax Common, its not all good news. She’s raising concerns the plan was devised in a top-down approach with little public input.
“HRM has this habit of turning over Common land to other bodies for use as parking. The IWK parking garage is one example,” said Millar who adds she agrees with some of the upgrades but is worried about trading green space for concrete.
