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We urge council not to make final Village Mall apartment decision without proper information, public debate
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The City of St John’s has announced its intention to decide on November 12 on whether a six story, 110 unit apartment building should be built in the Village Mall parking lot. Developers have indicated that unnecessary regulation and delays in the process are discouraging them from building and we pressed the city earlier this…
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City Wetlands protection debate at 3pm – some background
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We’ve seen quite an upsurge of interest on social media (here for example) about proposed changes in the way undeveloped wetlands around the city will be protected in future (or not). The council is going to vote on whether to approve their new rules in the council meeting Tuesday 11th at 3pm. This link…
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Happy City’s draft report on the City of St John’s changes to its planning regulations
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Below is an executive summary of our report on the city’s proposed changes to housing planning regulations, co-authored with Streets Are For People. The full text of that report is available here and anyone reading it who wishes to can comment on it and make suggestions. We hope that this will be the start…