{"id":1628,"date":"2016-09-02T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T21:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2016-09-11T19:27:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T23:27:21","slug":"tuesday-september-6th-at-10am-at-city-hall-bmbcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1628","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, September 6th at 10AM at City Hall: BMBCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecologyaction.ca\/sites\/ecologyaction.ca\/files\/images-documents\/file\/Wilderness\/%23010%20%20Hobsons%20Lake%20At%20Twilight.jpg\" alt=\"BMBCL\"  width=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Your help is needed to protect what could be the largest urban park in all of Canada. The long-promised but yet-to-be-delivered Blue Mountain Birch Cove Regional Park is under threat. It could be a mini-Keji for Halifax, but a terrible report from an independent facilitator, released in June, is recommending that a massive urban sprawl development be allowed inside the core of the future park. Immediately following the release of the flawed Independent Facilitator\u2019s Report, Councillor Reg Rankin quickly put forward a very bad three-part motion for council to debate and a vote on. After several delays his motion comes up for the big vote at Council this Tuesday, Sept. 6th.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecologyaction.ca\/news\/development-threatens-blue-mountain-birch-cove-lakes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: VERY GOOD NEWS: Council rejected development in Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes. See <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2923975\/council-rejects-development-in-blue-mountain-birch-cove-lakes\/\">Global News<\/a>. NOW it&#8217;s the Williams Lake Backlands on the burner (Sep 20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your help is needed to protect what could be the largest urban park in all of Canada. The long-promised but yet-to-be-delivered Blue Mountain Birch Cove Regional Park is under threat. It could be a mini-Keji for Halifax, but a terrible &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1633,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}