Business View Civil & Municipal | July 2022

57 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 7 TOWN OF KENTV I LLE , NOVA SCOT I A As for what comes next for the town of Kentville, there are plans to complete the Donald Hiltz connector, creating access to a large parcel of undeveloped land. According to Mayor Snow, “The opening of that land will give us an incredible amount of opportunity. By 2050, Kentville will be doubled in size. We will be supplying people to Halifax to work. Halifax is on a peninsula and there’s only so much space, and we have that space.” Although this land will create significant development options, there will still be more than enough green space to maintain the character of the small town. As Snow suggests, “People are going to come here and they’re still going to get that sense that they’re living in a beautiful, small hometown that you only see in the movies. We will have something for everyone.” Adding that Kentville has been an excellent steward of not only the land, but the town finances, Young asserts, “It’s really exciting to think about the fact that we are eventually going to be building exactly what we need, the exact way that we want it. Kentville is poised to explode right now. We really have everything lined up and in place to do that. It will be a breath of fresh air, right from how you do business at townhall, to how you are treated in the cafe, to how you feel when you walk down the street.”