A Halifax councillor is urging the general public to name police if building crews present up subsequent week on part of the town’s harbourfront often called Dartmouth Cove.
Coun. Sam Austin says an area developer doesn’t have permission to start infilling work — dumping pyritic slate and quarry rock alongside the strip of shoreline to create new land.
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Neighborhood group Save Dartmouth Cove says its members might be watching the realm, house to a public park and shoreline strolling path.
Simply earlier than Christmas Mayor Andy Fillmore despatched a letter to the province’s municipal affairs minister saying the developer plans to start work Jan. 5.
Austin says the work probably includes constructing a service highway, however the final plan is to infill Dartmouth Cove with pyritic slate as a base for a future growth.
In November the provincial authorities authorised a council bylaw prohibiting the infilling, however the municipal affairs minister has not but given the ultimate inexperienced mild to make the bylaw lively.
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