{"id":3621,"date":"2016-07-23T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T19:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2016-07-26T17:34:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T20:34:20","slug":"reg-rankin-makes-untimely-motion-to-amend-the-concept-plan-for-bmbcl-regional-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3621","title":{"rendered":"Reg Rankin makes untimely motion to amend the concept plan for BMBCL Regional Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a break from Reg&#8217;s usual support for green initiatives in HRM, he has put forward a motion for next Tuesday&#8217;s Regional Council meeting that tacitly accepts the highly criticized Facilitator&#8217;s report on Blue Mt Birch Cove Lakes Regional Park, see  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halifax.ca\/council\/agendasc\/documents\/160726ca151.pdf\">Item 15<\/a>. It also means, apparently, that the 1500+ letters written to Mayor and Councillors urging them to reject the Facilitator&#8217;s report topic will not be in the packages for councillors. Those who support the original concept of the Regional Park are urged to attend Regional Council at 1 pm on Tuesday when this item is likely to come up (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.halifax.ca\/council\/agendasc\/160726rc-agenda.php\">Agenda<\/a>). See  <a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/opinion\/1382532-opinion-blue-mountain-park-get-some-vision\">op-ed in the CH July 22 <\/a>for a few of the many reasons why Reg&#8217;s motion would  best be withdrawn and if not, soundly defeated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a break from Reg&#8217;s usual support for green initiatives in HRM, he has put forward a motion for next Tuesday&#8217;s Regional Council meeting that tacitly accepts the highly criticized Facilitator&#8217;s report on Blue Mt Birch Cove Lakes Regional Park, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3621\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3621\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}