Regional Council

Halifax Regional Council

Agenda

June 2, 2009
1:30 p.m.
Reconvene 6:00 p.m.
Council Chamber
In Camera Session
1:00 p.m.

1. INVOCATION

2. SPECIAL COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES - May 5 & 6, 2009 (268KB)

Minutes of June 2, 2009 (163KB)

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 - 1:30 p.m.
8.1 HRM by Design (deferred May 12, 2009)

    (i) Supplementary Staff Report dated May 25, 2009 (3.8 Mb)
    (ii) Supplementary Staff Report dated April 2, 2009 (4.4 Mb)
    (iii) Urban Design Task Force Report (162 Kb)
    (iv) Regional Plan Advisory Committee Report (88 Kb)
    (v) Heritage Advisory Committee Report (143 Kb)
    (vi) February 4, 2009 Staff Report REVISED (5.0 Mb)
    (vii) Proposed Downtown Halifax Secondary Municipal

Planning Strategy (3.4 Mb) REVISED
(viii) Proposed Downtown Halifax Land Use By-Law (9.1 Mb)

           REVISED
    (ix) Proposed Barrington Street Heritage Conservation District
            Revitalization Plan and By-Law (4.5 Mb) REVISED
    (x) District 12 Planning Advisory Committee Report (706 Kb)

8.2 Streetscape Capital Projects Implementation Strategy

(deferred May 26, 2009) (270 Kb)

9. PUBLIC HEARINGS - 6:00 p.m.
9.1 Case 01224 - Amendments to Eastern Passage / Cow Bay

Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-Law, Eastern

Passage (1.5 Mb)
9.2 By-Law S-605, An Amendment to By-Law S-600, Respecting

Solid Waste - ICI Cardboard (324 Kb)
9.3 Case 01148 - Bedford West Capital Cost Contributions

(Supplementary Report) (13 Mb) REVISED

10. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
10.1 Correspondence - None
10.2 Petitions
10.3 Presentation

10.3.1 CFB Halifax - Captain John Newton

11. REPORTS
11.1 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

11.1.1 Cost Sharing Agreement - Burnside Pedestrian

           Overpass (200 Kb)
11.1.2 Hosting of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’

           (FCM) Annual Conference, June 2011 (170 Kb)
11.1.3 Write-Off of Uncollectible Accounts (3.7 Mb)
11.1.4 Proposed By-Law L-131, An Amendment to By-Law

           L-100, Respecting Charges for Local Improvements -

           Clearwater Drive Bridge (Private Road) - Timberlea

           (4.0 Mb)
11.1.5 First Reading Proposed By-Law A-401, an

           Amendment to By-Law A-400, Respecting Alternative

           Voting for Ordinary Municipal Elections (354 Kb)
           Motion - Councillor Outhit - Move First Reading
11.1.6 Fiscal Health (3.6 Mb)
11.1.7 Provincially Funded Police Officers & Facility Lease

           Reserve Q-325 (264 Kb)

11.2 MARINE DRIVE, VALLEY AND CANAL, HARBOUR EAST AND

NORTH WEST COMMUNITY COUNCILS

11.2.1 Case 01201 - Amendments to the Beaver Bank,

           Hammonds Plains and Upper Sackville Municipal

           Planning Strategy and Land Use By-Law - Signs for

           Home Based Business Uses
            (i) Marine Drive, Valley & Canal and Western Region

                Community Councils Recommendation Report

                (842 Kb)
            (ii) North West Community Council Recommendation

                 Report (856 Kb)

11.3 REGIONAL PLAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE

11.3.1 Business Parks Development Functional Plan, Bayers

Lake / Ragged Lake (4.6 Mb)

11.4 SPECIAL EVENTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

11.4.1 Summer Festival Grant Recommendations 2009 / 2010

(344 Kb)
11.4.2 HRM Hallmark Event Grant Renewals (970 Kb)
11.4.3 Proposed HRM Hallmark Events and Funding

Recommendations (639 Kb)
11.4.4 Special Events Grant Funding Requests (2.2 Mb)

11.5 MEMBERS OF COUNCIL

11.5.1 Councillor Adams - Request for report re: Tax

Implications for Property Damage due to Fire

(106 Kb)

12. MOTIONS

12.1 Councillor McCluskey

“That St. George’s Lane, Dartmouth, be made a one way street.”

13. ADDED ITEMS

13.1 Councillor Adams - Sambro Loop Transit (107 Kb)

In Camera Recommendations (11 Kb)

14. NOTICES OF MOTION

15. ADJOURNMENT

In Camera Session - 1:00 p.m.
1. Approval of the Minutes - None
2. Approval of the Order of Business
3. Contractual Matter - Harbour Solutions Update
4. Personnel Matter - Citizen Appointments to Boards,

Committees & Commissions (deferred May 12/09)

INFORMATION ITEMS
June 2, 2009

1. Proclamation - National Hunger Awareness Day - June 2, 2009

(100 Kb)

2. Proclamation - Ride to Work Day - June 15, 2009 (79 Kb)

3. Memorandum from Managing Director, External & Corporate

Affairs dated May 26, 2009 re: DND Highway Sign Update (65 Kb)

4. Memorandum from Director, Business Planning & Information

Management & Halifax Harbour Solutions Project dated May 22,

2009 re: Harbour Solutions Project - Fourth Quarter Report -

January to March 2009 (178 Kb)

Additional information: http://www.halifax.ca/HWWTF/index.html