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Councillor’s
Communiqué : January 2005 - Issue # 86
Happy
New Year To All! |
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CIVIC
ADDRESSING PROJECT |
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HRM is
working in cooperation with the Province of Nova
Scotia to improve the 9-1-1 emergency service. HRM
Civic Addressing is currently undertaking a project
in the Preston, Eastern Shore, Musquodoboit Valley
areas to ensure that every residence and business
within the municipality has a valid civic address.
This will help to ensure that emergency services are
efficiently directed to your property. Staff are
working with a Council appointed Public Safety
Committee, composed of local Fire, Police, RCMP and
EHS members (paramedics), to identify civic
addressing issues which may create public safety
concerns and to resolve them. As each community in
the municipality undergoes a project, any un-named
roads will be named and any duplicate street names
and civic numbering issues will be resolved. While
most addresses will not change as a result of these
initiatives, some civic addresses will be modified
and corrected. If an address does change,
residents will be notified at least 60 days prior to
the effective date. The civic address correction
projects will be completed by July and August, 2005.
Those that have received letters about particular
Community Boundary matters are asked to reply by
January 15th, 2005.
If you have any questions about the project,
please contact HRM Civic Addressing Corrections
Technicians Robin Harvey at 490-4105 or by E-mail:
harveyr@halifax.ca or Lisa O'Toole at 490-6079
or by E-mail:
otoolel@halifax.ca . In the meantime, display
your Blue & White Civic Number Sign prominently. |
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PROPERTY ASSESSMENT APPEALS |
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Property Assessment Notices will be out in the mail
by mid January. There will be an 21 day official
Appeal Period whereby property owners can review and
perhaps refute their appraisals. If you feel it is
not assessed properly, then you should contact the
NS Dept.of Service Nova Scotia & Municipal Relations
and speak with an Assessment Services
representative. The NS Central Region Assessment
Office is located at:
780 Windmill
Road, Burnside Industrial Park, Dartmouth, NS, B3B
1T3.
Telephone #
424-5225 or Toll-free # 1-800-667-5727. Fax #
424-0586.
Property
owners are encouraged to call and talk to an
Assessor at this office, prior to appealing an
assessment. Perhaps this approach may answer and
clear up some questions that you may have, hopefully
avoiding the time and expense of an appeal. If not,
you have the right to make a formal appeal, IN
WRITING, either by letter or fax or hand-delivered,
which must be received by the Assessment Office on
time before the deadline. E-mail or On-line Appeals
are not yet acceptable by Legislation. Non-Resident
property owners have a 10 day extension to that
deadline in order to allow out-of-province mail to
flow in. If you should have any further enquiries
about the appeal process, please refer to the
Service Nova Scotia Web-Site at:
www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/asmt/ps/process/
. If you wish to avoid paying more in Property
Taxes, then you ought to investigate whether or not
your property is properly assessed its true value. |
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AID FOR BEETLE &
JUAN DAMAGES
NS Dept. of
Natural Resources (DNR) announced an Enhanced Wood
Salvage Program for landowners within the Brown
Spruce Longhorn Beetle restricted zone. The aim of
the program is to salvage areas where damage is most
extensive, to reduce public safety risks, all the
while supporting efforts to contain and eradicate
the beetle. The program will offset extraordinary
costs that are incurred by private operators willing
and authorized to work inside the restricted zone,
up to a total of $1 million. More details will be
announced after program components are finalized.
The Association of Sustainable Forestry will
receive, assess, and prioritize program applications
from private landowners on behalf of the province.
Now we need to get the Federal Government onside
with companion funding in order to do more with this
initiative. Please lobby your local MP's and the
Federal DNR Minister, Hon. R. John Efford, by Mail
(postage free) to the House of Commons, Ottawa,
Ontario, K1A 0A6. Tel: (613) 992-4133 or by Fax:
(613) 992-7277 or by E-mail:
Efford.J@parl.gc.ca . Let's bark up this tree! |
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