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"The devil, it\u2019s often said, is in the details.And while few details are known about the ongoing land-swap negotiations between HRM and the province (the municipality wants the provincially owned Infirmary site on Queen for a new library, while the province wants to expand the QEII Health Sciences Centre onto land formally occupied by Queen Elizabeth High), red flags were raised at city hall last week when word came that part of the QEII expansion may include paving paradise and putting in a new\u2014some say unneeded\u2014public parking lot.As Dan Davis, a spokesperson for the Provincial Department of Transportation and Public Works, explains, provincially owned parking lots are few in the city and generally located in areas that serve the public need to access provincial services.\u201CBesides the old Infirmary location, the province owns five plots of land in HRM that are currently in use as public parking lots,\u201D says Davis, adding that the management and operation of the lots is actually contracted out to Imperial Parking.According to Ken Skinner, city manager for Imperial in Halifax, those contracts go through a request-for-proposal process and are generally for three-to-five-year terms, with the province having the right to renew for an extra year if needed.The current provincial lots are located on Upper Water by the Supreme Court, Lower Water at Sackville, on Spring Garden next to the provincial Court House, on South Street across from the IWK Hospital and on the former DalTech lot at Queen and Spring Garden. Davis says the parking lots at the Health Sciences Centre and the IWK are actually man-aged by the Capital District Health Authority.\u201CWith the old Infirmary site, that has always been a short-term situation, that once there was a graded lot following the demolition of the building, in the interim between then and whatever will be the future use of the site, it made sense to put in a parking lot,\u201D he says."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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