Andy Fillmore for Mayor of Halifax
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Main Streets

We’re a large municipality, a community of communities. People should not have to burn a litre of gas to buy a litre of milk. People should be able to walk down a main street with their families and stop for an ice cream or a coffee, or visit a local corner store, and sit in an outdoor seating area with recreation opportunities nearby. 

My plan would...

  • To achieve this, we will implement a Main Streets Initiative to bring back main streets in communities across HRM. 
  • This will remove outdated planning barriers that are preventing entrepreneurs from building these main streets.  
  • Direct HRM staff to work with local business improvement districts and community groups from Musquodoboit Harbour to Sambro, to hear from community members on how they’d like their main street to be, and to determine what infrastructure improvements are required to support emerging main streets.