N.S. designates new special planning area near Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes

But Claudia Chender, leader of the Nova Scotia NDP, said there actually is land in the urban core that is waiting for development that the province should focus on, like the former school sites of Bloomfield or St. Patrick's-Alexandra in the north end of Halifax.

She said the NDP brought in legislation that would allow the province to take these sites back from developers that have yet to build anything.

"To address the housing crisis, we need to build housing that's accessible and affordable in places that people can move to and from easily. And this is none of those things," Chender said Friday about the Sandy Lake and Highway 102 areas.

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