Sackville Food Programs
The Cobequid Food Network is a group of community groups that have been meeting to address housing and food insecurity. Through the conversations we have developed a food calendar, which we plan to update monthly. This shows where and when food is available, in the Sackville area, at low or no cost.
Our intent is to update this calendar monthly.
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Lower Sackville Developments
Lower Sackville has a housing shortage. At this point we have about a 0% vacancy rate. One of the solutions for this is to build more places for people to live, and that’s exactly what’s happening in Lower Sackville. I talk more about this here: http://www.paulrussell.ca/housing/
I have put this post together in response to numerous questions. I intend to keep this post updated the significant developments that I know of.
The development that has captured the most attention recently is 70-80 First Lake Drive. The HRM web site for this is here: https://www.halifax.ca/business/planning-development/applications/case-24508-70-80-first-lake-drive-lower-sackville As of October 2022 it is still in the very early stages of this application. HRM planning is working with the developer. We can expect a public meeting early in 2023, but at this point it is too early to know when or where that will be.
The full list is here: http://www.paulrussell.ca/lower-sackville-developments/
Neighbourhood Speeding
We went through one election in 2019 and another in 2020. In both of these elections the number one issue that you talked about was speeding on neighbourhood streets. This problem has been described as a problem all around Lower Sackville, and also in many areas around HRM.
There are two general ways to slow traffic down. The first is to change the streets to make it more difficult to speed. The second is to encourage and remind drivers to respect the posted speed limit.
We use both methods to help reduce the speeding on our streets.