Exhibition Park ‘urban village’ promises conservation, but group concerned about park

GOODWOOD, N.S. — Nestled up to Long Lake Provincial Park, nearly 6,000 housing units will go tall instead of spreading out.is the partner and founder of Fathom Studios which is designing a new neighbourhood on the 44-hectare Exhibition Park lands in Goodwood for owner Banc Group Inc. In an interview, he said the 5,000-housing-unit estimate,“It’s an area that could be a gateway into with a bunch of entries into that big provincial park.

And there was a long-term plan to have a parking lot and main entrance where the development is going now, Willison said. There are a number of places where stormwater drains off “and we have to meet the no-net runoff requirements so that means the same amount of stormwater that falls on it today, you can’t exceed what’s already coming off the property,” he said.

“We’re trying to develop it as a bit of an eco community so that we’re minimizing the surface runoff into the provincial park to the east.”Adding traffic to an already congested Prospect Road is going to be a big issue for residents, predicted Coun. Patty Cuttell . “Part of the plan is we’ve got a transit loop that goes into it. We’re looking at extending active transportation, add bike lanes out here. And obviously with this many units there would be upgrades to that .”

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