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HALIFAX –\u00a0<\/strong>On May 24th, Halifax Regional Council approved an extension of Halifax\u2019s water service boundary to allow a 256 unit development in Beaver Bank, a bedroom community. You can see how city planners and Council thought the proposal reasonable. If you look at a map, it seems like it makes sense to just fill in the gap.<\/p>\n

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Proposed 265 unit development in the Halifax Region.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Halifax Water said it was a good idea: the developer will pay for a watermain between the two neighbouring areas.\u00a0Why not change our growth boundaries\u00a0to allow another business-as-usual development?<\/p>\n

Because\u00a0car-dependent growth has\u00a0enormous, well-established\u00a0costs that could\u00a0be avoided with\u00a0complete rural and suburban communities. It’s time these alternatives become the new minimum standard.<\/p>\n

But first, let’s look at the\u00a0costs.<\/p>\n

Health Costs of Car Dependency<\/h2>\n

At Beaver Bank\u2019s current person per household, this development will house 742 people. That\u2019s half the population of Chester outside Halifax’s\u00a0transit service boundary, where they also will have no local businesses or services to walk or bike to.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is nothing new: an enormous proportion of Halifax\u2019s development is 100% car dependent. But if it\u2019s normal, does that mean it\u2019s OK? Consider this table:<\/p>\n

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Hans Krueger, Joshua Krueger and Jacqueline Koot, Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While the health costs of smoking are dropping, the costs of being overweight and inactive are rising to take first place in health costs in Canada.<\/p>\n

So how do we combat this health crisis? No matter how great our\u00a0advertising campaigns<\/a>, we will likely\u00a0never convince every Canadian to go to the gym three days\u00a0a week. Fundamentally, if we want Canadians to walk or bike, we have to build communities where people\u00a0have things to walk or bike to<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A Canadian physical activity advertising campaign from the late 1980’s. Such projects will not be enough to convince the majority of Canadians to get sufficient exercise if their neighbourhoods do not support activity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And consider the human cost. According to UK\u2019s Department of Health, inactivity leads to a\u00a016% to 30% greater risk of premature death<\/a>. If car dependency is a leading cause of inactivity, how many of our 742 new residents in Beaver Bank will die prematurely because task-oriented walking is not option? The number will likely not be\u00a00.<\/p>\n

All these people will drive through other people\u2019s communities, where residents will breathe in fumes and\u00a0fine particulate pollution<\/a>. Drivers and pedestrians alike will\u00a0die in car accidents, the\u00a09th leading cause of death in the world<\/a>. It\u2019s not fair that even people who walk or take transit suffer the health consequences of other people who have been forced to drive.<\/p>\n

Drinking during pregnancy was once seen as normal. Smoking was once seen as normal. 100% car-dependency may now seem normal, but for most of human history, it didn\u2019t exist, and considering the health impact, it need not seem normal in the future.<\/p>\n

Financial Costs of Car Dependency<\/h2>\n

Single occupancy vehicles are inefficient in their use of space and are expensive to accommodate.<\/p>\n

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From Banister and Button, Transportation, theEnvironment and Sustainable Development, 1993.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Find this graph hard to believe? Consider this image:<\/p>\n

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The space needed for 60 people by mode of transportation, from Cycling Promotion Fund.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our quality of life is better when driving is an option, but how much are we willing to spend on driving being the only option?<\/p>\n

If Halifax\u2019s next 100,000 residents need to drive for every task, consider how much more we will have to spend on infrastructure to handle that level of traffic. If just half of their trips can be handled with sidewalks or bike lanes to local schools and business, or by transit, we will save millions.<\/p>\n

Costs to Service<\/h2>\n

Stantec Inc found Halifax could save $3,000,000,000 over 18 years by better concentrating growth. The reason is simple: if a property is three times wider, it costs three times more to build pipes and roads to it, to pick up its garbage, to plough its snow, to police it, etc.<\/p>\n

Between 1992 and 2014, Halifax\u2019s built-up area doubled in size while it grew in population by only one fifth. For each person, we now all need to pay for far more infrastructure, and for all that space to be serviced weekly.<\/p>\n

\"Halifax<\/a>
From Our HRM Alliance, 2015.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While growth should be making Halifax wealthier, dispersed\u00a0car-dependent development\u00a0is instead burdening each of us with greater costs.<\/p>\n

Costs to the Environment<\/h2>\n

Personal vehicle use is the\u00a0largest direct source of CO2 emissions of\u00a0Canadian households<\/a>. There is no mystery how\u00a0cities\u00a0can\u00a0reduce that number:<\/p>\n

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Bongardt et al. Low-carbon Land Transport: Policy Handbook. 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Costs to Autonomy<\/h2>\n

Fully one third of Canadians do not have driver\u2019s licenses. That number includes youth, the elderly, the disabled, and people too poor to own a car.<\/p>\n

What does it say about our attitudes to these people if so much of our growth denies them basic independence? I grew up in a poor family of seven with one car in a car-dependent community. Like me, too many young people have no access to jobs and other opportunities until they leave home.<\/p>\n

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From Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle, Transportation Research Institute, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Personal Costs<\/h2>\n

Owning a car costs\u00a0$9,500 a year on average in Canada<\/a>. If the design of a community requires a family to own a second car, it can add $237,500 to a 25 year mortgage. The difference makes many homes that seem cheap up-front\u00a0cost\u00a0significantly more, in effect, than transit-oriented homes<\/a>\u00a0(pdf). That\u2019s why, in part, car dependent home values plummeted during the housing crisis while the value of\u00a0transit-oriented homes stayed stable<\/a>\u00a0(pdf). What would happen to the value of these homes in an oil shock, if the price tripled or\u00a0quadrupled?<\/p>\n

Are home buyers rationally accepting these costs and risks at purchase? Or are some of these costs hidden to buyers, systematically distorting the market to encourage unhealthy development? It\u2019s an empirical question, but it is hard to believe we would have the same Halifax if home-buyers could see the full equation up-front.<\/p>\n

Saying No<\/h2>\n

The facts about car dependency, inactivity and health are not controversial. What\u2019s controversial is doing anything about it.<\/p>\n

Public health initiatives such as Nova Scotia\u2019s Thrive Strategy express the need to build healthy communities that foster physical activity. That much is easy to say, but by failing to directly address the heart of the issue\u2014the construction of places where walking to fulfill practical needs is not possible\u2014these strategies allow the problem to persist.<\/p>\n

The attitude of many in government appears to be that while we shouldn’t continue to allow this kind of development, we can’t\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0allow it.<\/p>\n

In fact we can. A piece of land has zero development value unless taxpayers provide it with roads, pipes, and a commitment to service it with garbage pickup, snow ploughing and much more without end. Just because someone happens to own a piece of land does not mean they have a \u201cright\u201d to reach into taxpayers pockets, create an infrastructure liability, and get away with large profits.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why under Canadian law, it is municipalities that decide where subdivisions can be built, not land owners. One of the most decisive legal cases on this issue was actually decided\u00a0in Nova Scotia<\/a>, and the outcome was clear: land ownership does not equal an absolute right to residential development. Ontario has used this power to say no to subdivisions in an area\u00a0nearly the size of PEI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saying Yes: Complete Rural and Suburban Communities<\/h2>\n

There are, in fact, many Halifax communities that are actively trying to create attractive local mainstreets where residents will be able to conduct much of their daily business on-foot:\u00a0Musquodoboit Harbour<\/a>, Tantallon Crossroads<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Village on Main\u00a0<\/a>(Dartmouth). We need to support these efforts by\u00a0directing our scarce yearly growth to such places.<\/p>\n

Many\u00a0people do prefer living in car-dependent places. Happily, we can already offer 10\u2019s of thousands of car-dependent homes, and space for thousands more have been approved. This preference is well-served. Considering the health and cost consequences, however, approving more\u00a0is unethical.<\/p>\n

A Basic Minimum Standard<\/h2>\n

\u201cNot all urban development is good just because it is urban. Not all suburban development is bad just because it is suburban.\u201d<\/p>\n

These words\u2014spoken by a planner representing 265 unit development in Beaver Bank\u2014are no doubt true. But if the health data is correct, car dependent development, whether rural or urban, is indeed bad. In fact,\u00a0the numbers are clear:\u00a0it leads to illness and premature death.<\/p>\n

We must abandon the idea that it is permissible to build communities where driving is the only option to do anything.\u00a0We must\u00a0set new minimum standards for growth so all new communities will be complete communities.\u00a0A\u00a0proportion of commercial space\u00a0should be required within\u00a0walking distance of homes. We need rules for street layouts that allow people to walk in the most direct way possible to destinations and street-design standards that make walking and biking safe and comfortable. We should require new growth to achieve a reasonable levels of\u00a0compactness, while maintaining the privacy and space that makes rural and suburban development attractive.<\/p>\n

It would not be considered professional for authorities in the health sector to play a role in encouraging smoking. Currently, however, it is considered professional for planners to enable development that constitutes a\u00a0leading cause of illness\u00a0in Canada.<\/p>\n

All this raises a question: given the evidence on health alone, how can we continue to accept that car-dependent development is part of professional planning practice? How good does the evidence need to be before we update what we deem ethical?<\/p>\n

It is time to set a new norm: the only good development is complete development, where healthy forms of transportation are at least an option.<\/p>\n

Cover image by Takashi<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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