Halifax Regional Council
Agenda
May 3, 2011
3:00 p.m.
Reconvene 6:00 p.m.
If Required
Council Chamber
Revised
1. INVOCATION
2. SPECIAL COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES –NONE
Minutes for May 3, 2011 (84KB)
4. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS
5. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES
6. MOTIONS OF RECONSIDERATION – NONE
7. MOTIONS OF RESCISSION – NONE
8. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS – NONE
9. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
9.1 Correspondence
9.1.1 Request for Fly-Past – Fall River Canal Days / Canada
Day Celebrations
9.2 Petitions
10. REPORTS
10.1 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
10.1.1 Tender 11-214 – Pavement, Curb, Sidewalk and
Water Main Renewal – Cook Avenue – West Region
(1.5 Mb)
10.1.2 Tender 11-209 – Thin Overlays – Phase 1 – VariousLocations (1.1 Mb)
10.1.3 Case 16811 – Timberlea / Lakeside / Beechville
10.2 COMMUNITY PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
STANDING COMMITTEE
10.3 ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY STANDING COMMITTEE
10.3.1 Provincial Erosion Sediment Control Guidelines (68 Kb)
10.4 TRANSPORTATION STANDING COMMITTEE
11. MOTIONS
11.1 Councillor Sloane
“To request that Regional Council:
1. Authorize staff to include, as part of the first annual review of the Downtown Halifax Secondary Municipal Planning Strategy and the Downtown Halifax Land Use By-law, the consideration of potential amendments to the Maximum Pre-Bonus and Maximum Post Bonus Height Maps to increase the height on properties identified by civic addresses 5161-5167 South Street, Halifax, from the current height of 13.716 metres, as was originally recommended by the Urban Design Task Force, and for the maximum height on these properties to be calculated as per the definition of building height, as contained under Part 2 of the Land Use By-law.
2. Request that staff follow the public participation program approved by Council on February 25, 1997.”
11.2 Councillor McCluskey
“To request that staff be directed to initate a review of the Business Park Reserve Policy in discussion with the Audit & Finance Committee, in order to review and clarify uses for the reserve.”
12. ADDED ITEMS
12.1 Councillor Uteck – Request for staff report regarding tax and policy implication of Levying the Local Transit as a Dwelling Unit Charge for 2012 / 2013 (32 Kb)
13. NOTICES OF MOTION
14. ADJOURNMENT
INFORMATION ITEMS
May 3, 2011
1. Proclamation – Leave a Legacy Month – May 2011 (339 Kb)
2. Proclamation – Sexual Assault Awareness Month – May 2011
3. Proclamation – Census Week – May 9 – 13, 2011 (334 Kb)
4. Memorandum from Director, Transportation & Public Works
dated April 4, 2011 re: Woodside Ferry Terminal Elevator /
