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adamyyc said:
I think they can work well in certain cities/climates (Vancouver as an example), but I rarely see building owners in Calgary take pride in keeping these types of planters maintained.
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Condo boards want no part of a landscape maintenance fee and rental buildings can barely get light bulbs changed by their management company. Perpetuated by residents with no pride of ownership. Sad really.
 
haltcatchfire said:
Condo boards want no part of a landscape maintenance fee and rental buildings can barely get light bulbs changed by their management company. Perpetuated by residents with no pride of ownership. Sad really.
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Frankly, I don’t think condo owners in Calgary get very good value for condo fees. I have a hard time understanding why condo fees are as high as they are in Calgary when the services/amenities don’t seem to match.
 
adamyyc said:
Frankly, I don’t think condo owners in Calgary get very good value for condo fees. I have a hard time understanding why condo fees are as high as they are in Calgary when the services/amenities don’t seem to match.
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They sure have increased rapidly, and seem higher than comparable buildings in BC and ON. Five years ago, a middle of the road strata was ~$450/ month. Now it seems more ~$750
 
Tarsus said:
I can’t wait to hear the remarks from the community lol.
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I like this. It's good density by an LRT station and it's north of the SFH so no shadowing concerns.
I'd like to see similar on the block just to the west.
And I'm not sure if it was foresight or just luck but just north of the AMA is 4 story multifamily going down to 2 story multifamily. Just need to redevelop the AMA site with 6-8 stories.
 
Actually the AMA and medium density to the north of it was a drive in movie from the mid 1950s until around 1980, although it may have been abandoned during a portion of that time. The AMA building and housing were all built by 1982

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I find it fascinating not just to see how buildings have changed but also roads. Sometimes country roads are completely erased, sometimes they are reused and sometimes just random portions of them still exist no longer connected.
 
JoeUrban said:
. Sometimes country roads are completely erased, sometimes they are reused and sometimes just random portions of them still exist no longer connected.
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I noticed this with Old Banff Coach Road. It has remained largely intact in Springbank, but has been pieced up and reused in a bunch of different ways within the city. And west of Springbank, the original road seems to be gone/grown over.

Then there is the slow train wreck of Victoria Park being swallowed up by the Stampede Grounds. I previously thought it had all kind of happened at once around 2007, but it was already underway by the mid-70s. And I never pieced together that the Corral was on 17 Ave, which you could take all the way to the Elbow River.

(Sorry for continuing the off-topic derail here!)
 
badc0ffee said:
(Sorry for continuing the off-topic derail here!)
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I created a thread

Calgary Imagery historic airphoto site discussion thread

This a terrible title but I couldn't think of anything better. I wanted to start a thread about the Calgary Imagery site (https://maps.calgary.ca/CalgaryImagery/Imagery/) which is a GIS which allows you to overlay 37 different years of airphotos between 1924 and 2022. It's a super useful tool...
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