Everyone's favorite activist, Peggy Cameron, is at it again, and of course CBC is on the case to give her a podium:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot...st-black-physician-nova-scotia-1.6513426
For further clarity, this is on the south side of North St, one house east of the corner of Robie and North, near the MT&T/Aliant property.
I have multiple issues with this, even aside from the usual Peggy Cameron silliness.
As can be seen from the picture in the CBC piece, it was once a lovely building, actually a bigger duplex than it is at present. The left half of the original structure was demolished a long time ago apparently. From the present day pictures it still seems to be in decent repair but one suspects most of the interior finishes have been updated for the rental market, though I am not certain of that.
Ms. Cameron's alarm seems largely a disguise for her usual anti-development position, cloaking it this time in a guise of a black doctor who used the site to treat victims of the Halifax Explosion. Even she admits that it is not under risk of demolition at present but that it could be the site of (gasp!) a tall apartment building, oh the horror.
One suspects few Haligonians have ever heard of the good doctor and using that as justification seems flimsy at best. This is a very busy corner and one suspects that at some point even HRM will sit up and take notice that the roadways in both directions need improvement, so that is another risk facing it. To save it long-term it would likely take a great deal of investment from someone or full relocation which does not seem likely.
This raises a bigger question for me which is that given the explosive growth we have seen in Halifax recently and the projections that it could reach 1 million residents by 2050, where do all those people go? You cannot get 20 lbs of potatoes in a 10 lb sack. There will likely be a lot of smallish wood frame buildings under risk of demolition to provide taller/bigger/modern housing. Do we just tell those people to go to the suburbs?
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