The Halifax Regional Municipality (the municipality) is planning to repair the asphalt and curbs on Birchwood Terrace and Lawnsdale Drive. Municipal employees have assessed the need for a new sidewalk on two streets.

To help make a decision, we are seeking your opinion for the potential installation of sidewalks on:

• Birchwood Terrace between Lorraine Street and Lawnsdale Drive
• Lawnsdale Drive between Kingston Crescent and Louise Avenue

Providing feedback on the potential sidewalk installation can be done by:

• taking the survey below on this webpage between October 20 to November 4, 2025; and

• contacting the project manager by email: Anders.Turim@halifax.ca.

Considerations

Adding a sidewalk on Lawnsdale Drive does not require change to the street cross-section but would require removing vegetation and plantings to install the sidewalk.

To add a sidewalk on Birchwood Terrace, the municipality would need to make more significant changes. Because of trees and utility poles on the east side of the street (the golf course side), installing a sidewalk there would require narrowing the street to about 7.5 metres from curb to curb. This is about two metres narrower than usual.

The cross-section would look like the following:

About new sidewalk installments in Halifax

Many streets in Halifax were built without sidewalks. The municipality’s New Sidewalk Program aims to add sidewalks to streets that identified as “high need” based on criteria such as proximity to schools, transit, shops and the classification of the street. Each year, the municipality adds about three kilometres of new sidewalks across the region, usually in conjunction with projects to rehabilitate typically as part of asphalt and curb rehabilitation projects.