Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

[Cowtown]

This is blatantly false. The issue is not that society's too full of bleeding heart liberals. The police are constantly harassing homeless people. The UCP doesn't seem to have any qualms about villainizing the homeless. .

I would say the opposite. Police harassment on homeless is low. Yeah, the police harass them from time to time but only when people complain about them loitering in front of their business or they're a public area with no loitering.
I mean, what else are they going to do? Decide not harass them and let downtown turn into a disaster? (compared to what people think it is today).

 

[DougB]

Come to Texas if you want to see police harassing homeless and addicts. In Dallas, the police will immediately seize and destroy drugs and paraphernalia from anyone consuming in public. I've seen the cops force meth heads to stomp on their pipes and pick up the pieces. The police do not tolerate any tents pitched in public spaces and will request them to be dismantled before calling in a team to dismantle them. I also saw a homeless person cuffed and thrown into a paddy wagon for deficating on the sidewalk.

The approach seems to work.

 

[outoftheice]

Timely to the conversation and actually fits with the Urban Development Proposal thread.... the folks in Royal Oak are getting some new neighbours!

Mandatory drug treatment centre to be built adjacent to Royal Oak area

One of Alberta's two compassionate intervention centres will be built adjacent to the Royal Oak area and the remand centre.

calgaryherald.com

 

[DougB]

Timely to the conversation and actually fits with the Urban Development Proposal thread.... the folks in Royal Oak are getting some new neighbours!

Mandatory drug treatment centre to be built adjacent to Royal Oak area

One of Alberta's two compassionate intervention centres will be built adjacent to the Royal Oak area and the remand centre.

calgaryherald.com

Locating near existing correctional and and mental health facilities should be about as non-controversial as possible. The Spy Hill correctional facility pre-dates all of the area's residential development

 

[FCC1982]

Random skyline shots - from Crescent Heights:

 

[Golfing guy]

Can’t seem to find the project. The lot on 37st/Bowness rd/Veterans way NW is in full development. Drill and many other pieces of equipment at work today

 

[Surrealplaces]

Not a lot of info for that one. It looks to be a 2 storey residential care building.
New: Residential Care (1 building);
2-storey (11 metres) in height; and
24 dwelling units, 2,517 square metres in size.
The current Land Use District allows for this type of development

There's another proposal that was more of a concept also on Veteran's Way, but to the west. At first I thought it might be that one.

 

[ByeByeBaby]

This is a little all over the place, but there's a new podcast by David Zipper (MIT senior fellow, mobility reporter at CityLab, Vox, Slate, etc.) and Wes Marshall (U Colorado Denver civil engineering prof, author of Killed By A Traffic Engineer). The third episode opens with a brief discussion of Wes' recent visit to Calgary and Banff, not a detailed site visit but someone who was here as a tourist taking a quick trip.

Key points about Calgary (there's also some on Banff):
Good stuff:

• Multi-use pathways along the river and separated from roadways
• A really good mix of housing - SFD, apartment, townhouse all together in the same area

On the other hand:

• "Every time you turn around there's another highway"
• "Downtown, they seem to have these five-lane arterials that seem to have almost nobody on them."

The podcast is interesting overall, if you're the kind of person who is interested in a 10 minute discussion about speed humps, which I wager more than a couple of you are.

 

[outoftheice]

It's an interesting question... what happens with such an important downtown heritage asset if the current owner sees no value in it? We see this occur a lot with smaller buildings that just get knocked down but this is definitely a different scale...

Downtown association wants a plan for Hudson's Bay location after RioCan backs off - LiveWire Calgary

Uncertainty over the future of the Hudson’s Bay location on Stephen Avenue has the Calgary Downtown association worried about the gaping retail hole left in the area. After RioCan announced they were pulling away from five former Hudson’s Bay retail locations, including the downtown Calgary...

livewirecalgary.com

 

[darwink]

It's an interesting question... what happens with such an important downtown heritage asset if the current owner sees no value in it? We see this occur a lot with smaller buildings that just get knocked down but this is definitely a different scale...

Downtown association wants a plan for Hudson's Bay location after RioCan backs off - LiveWire Calgary

Uncertainty over the future of the Hudson’s Bay location on Stephen Avenue has the Calgary Downtown association worried about the gaping retail hole left in the area. After RioCan announced they were pulling away from five former Hudson’s Bay retail locations, including the downtown Calgary...

livewirecalgary.com

If it isn’t protected either someone can buy it into protection (including the government) or buy it without protection and do what they want to it.

 

[Urb]

Dear Lord - please keep this away from Strategic...

 

[Nimbus]

Dear Lord - please keep this away from Strategic...

C'mon Truman!

 

[trtcttc]

C'mon Truman!

I hope Truman doesn't take more on in the short term. It's great they're doing so much but scale also means if something happens with the slowing market, a decent portion of the city's highrises would stall.

 

[Mountain Man]

Truman like to demolish heritage buildings, so no.