{"id":1073,"date":"2015-04-15T15:40:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2015-04-15T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:43:13","slug":"support-for-the-backlands-at-regional-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1073","title":{"rendered":"Support for the Backlands at Regional Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Regional Council voted 11 to 6 against opening negotations with developers about acquiring the Williams Lake Backlands <em>before <\/em> completion of Phase I of the Greenbelting and Open Spaces Priorities Plan &#8211; the recommendation of Staff that was also supported by ourHRM Allaince and the Backlands Coalition.<br \/>\nHere is a link to the Chronicle Herald article about the Council meeting:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/metro\/1280571-council-notebook-politicians-talk-halifax-water-review-greenbelt-plan\">http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/metro\/1280571-council-notebook-politicians-talk-halifax-water-review-greenbelt-plan<\/a><br \/>\nWe were very much encouraged when we witnessed several Councillors expressing the view that the Backlands would and should come under public ownership.<br \/>\nWe are also encouraged by Clayton Developments&#8217; steadfast interest in pursuing public ownership of our near urban wilderness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Regional Council voted 11 to 6 against opening negotations with developers about acquiring the Williams Lake Backlands before completion of Phase I of the Greenbelting and Open Spaces Priorities Plan &#8211; the recommendation of Staff that was also supported &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1073\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}