Big dreams were on display last month in the Burnside Business Park as hundreds of children of all ages packed the Atlantic Cirque School of Circus Arts for their annual Open House event.
Burnside, and Halifax Regional Municipality in general, needs to hold on to its industrial zoned land. That was one message that came through loud and clear at a public meeting held in Dartmouth to solicit public input on future land use in a currently undeveloped section of the business park.
• The Eco-Efficiency Centre is putting on a Resource Management and Synergy Workshop on Feb. 9 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Park Place Ramada Plaza and Conference Centre in Burnside. This no-cost workshop is open to all small and medium sized enterprise owners or staff.
Nova Scotia recovers many resources that heretofore would have gone to landfills or perhaps worse: burned just to get rid of them. The Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act will require us to divert even more material from landfills over time.
When Ross Cantwell first delivered his report and recommendations that formed the basis for the Business parks Functional Plan about two years ago now, one of his key findings was the need to secure more industrial land.
Regardless of the small number of people that responded to the survey (as referenced in "Burnside pedway nears completion" in the January 2010 issue) or that we see risking life and limb crossing the Circumferential Highway, the pedway should have been constructed between Tim Horton's and Burgess Transfer.
