Marcus Garnet has worked as a planner with Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) and the former City of Halifax since 1990.

Before joining the City of Halifax he worked for a year as a planner with the City of Fredericton. He received his Masters in

Urban and Rural Planning at the Technical University of Nova Scotia, which brought him to Halifax from Montreal where he

had obtained a Bachelor of Commerce and a Diploma in Community Politics and the Law. He is a member of the Canadian

Institute of Planners, a faculty adjunct with the Dalhousie School of Planning, and Vice President of Transport 2000 Atlantic,

a public transportation advocacy group.

Marcus has done analytical work, research and policy development on a wide range of issues including settlement patterns,

parkland, community design and public transit options. In his work for the HRM Regional Planning project, Marcus has

focussed on the relationship between transportation, land use and lifestyle, and has been closely involved with drafting the

distribution of Regional Plan growth centres. Most recently, he has been assisting with community visioning and rural

public transit.

Marcus and his wife, Christine, live near downtown Dartmouth in a neighbourhood which they like to describe as “Old

Urbanism”, because it exemplifies the walkable, human scale and convenient public transit which is so important to New

Urbanism and Smart Growth.