Welcome to Shape Your City

Find information and get engaged on a broad range of municipal initiatives. We know that your time is precious and your opinion is important, Shape Your City makes it easy to give your input from the comfort of your home.

Archived projects remain available for you to look at and can be found under "Past Engagements".

This site complements traditional consultation activities like open houses and town halls by making engagement programs more inclusive, accessible and easier to share your opinions.

Archived projects remain available for you to look at and can be found under "Past Engagements".

This site complements traditional consultation activities like open houses and town halls by making engagement programs more inclusive, accessible and easier to share your opinions.

Municipal Projects

Parkland Drive and Regency Park Drive bicycle lanes

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Halifax Regional Municipality is building comfortable and convenient cycling connections for all ages and abilities. Pending Council approval, this project would add bicycle lanes along Parkland and Regency Park drives and improve key intersections by making them safer and more accessible.
Isleville Intersections Upgrades

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Halifax Regional Municipality is seeking feedback about Isleville at Almon Street and Young and Kaye streets. These intersections currently have traffic diverters built using temporary infrastructure. The municipality is seeking public input before proceeding with changes including upgrading the existing diverters with concrete curb, landscaping, signs, pavement markings and other more permanent features.
Minimum Planning changes in Halifax

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The municipality is inviting residents to learn about changes the Province of Nova Scotia has made to the Halifax Charter’s Minimum Planning Requirements. The municipality is required to meet the new requirements and is running a 30-day public engagement period to notify residents of upcoming changes to land use planning.
The public engagement period will run from January 24 until February 24, 2025.
Traveller Opinion Survey

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The Traveller Opinion Survey - Open between July 22 to August 12, 2024.
Your feedback will help us learn more about how citizens travel, and understand what motivates people to use sustainable transportation modes. With this information, we can recommend improvements to our transportation network.
Rural Short-Term Rentals

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Share your thoughts!
We want to hear from you about short-term rentals located in rural areas of the municipality.
Your feedback will be used to shape land-use by-law regulations to ensure consistency across the municipality.
Complete the survey below by August 19, 2024.
Alderney Drive Functional Plan

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The municipality wants to hear from you about proposed active transportation and transit priority changes on a corridor between Wyse Road and Thistle Street to Alderney Drive and Dundas Street.
Slayter Local Street Bikeway and Connections

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We would like to invite you to participate in public engagement to provide feedback on the proposed bikeway concept designs for the project study corridor and the bikeway connections, as well as to share with us your thoughts on the successes and shortcomings of the interim bikeway improvements pilot project along Slayter Street
Strawberry Hill Future Growth Node

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The municipality has received development proposals for the Strawberry Hill Future Growth Node. Municipal staff are reviewing information submitted by landowners within the site area and are awaiting supporting information to be provided by the applicants.
Young District

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The public is invited to attend a public information meeting to help shape the future of the Young District. Three public information meeting sessions will take place on Wednesday, June 26th, 2024.
Halifax Exhibition Centre Mixed Use Development

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The Halifax Exhibition Centre (HEC) lands located along Prospect Road (Highway 333) in Beechville were identified by Halifax Regional Council as an “Opportunity Site”.