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We know it must not involve any cycling infrastructure, because that has a mandatory 7 phase, 43 month public engagement process before it can be eventually dropped from the budget.

The thing that gets me is the appellant introduced a 'tall tower separation' 'best practice' of 18 to 24 metres from guides in Toronto and Ottawa, apparently we don't have a guideline. However, every nearby pair of tall towers in Mission that doesn't involve a street? 12 metre separation.

A few little NIMBY gems: Ms. Dueck's condo building: But the actual reason is tall tower setbacks. The appellant must be the slumlord who owns the 4-storey rental building on 25th Ave to the north of the site; a four storey building is not a tall tower, and it has a massive rear parking lot...

I doubt it; modern mega-concert tours tend to be designed for either a football/soccer stadium or an indoor arena (or, less commonly, a baseball park). They don't just show up and try to figure out how to shoehorn their show into a bunch of oddball facilities; they can more-or-less standardize...

The concerts thing as I understand it is the surrounding community, so any renovation other than perhaps replacing it with a full dome would still raise issues. But also, stadium concerts are really not that much of a thing; we'd be lucky to get 2 a year. Nice to have, especially if you like...

If the downtown LRT was built as a subway from day 1, I 100% guarantee we wouldn't have any problems with the SE LRT today. Because we wouldn't be anywhere near building a fifth line, we'd be building the extensions to McKnight and Dalhousie, and doing engagement on the West LRT. It doesn't...

A little sad that the good bones of the historic brick building will get removed and replaced with two stories of fake brick cladding.

We have an absolute ton of draft capital this year (and the next couple), so hopefully the scouts do their job well. This year we have: High first round (our own) Mid-to-late first (Vegas) Two high seconds (ours, Rangers) Two mid seconds (Utah, Sens) Two high thirds (ours, Canucks) Plausibly 8...

Wait, there's a Ska Spa? How have I never heard of this?! It would be... ONE STEP BEYOND!!

Games played over 12 days doesn't necessarily mean a 12 day break either; the Olympics men's tournament was played over 12 days (Feb 11-22) although the NHL game break was longer. Looking at the Olympic tournament as a model, it had round-robin from the 11-15, then qualifiers on the 17th...

I was trying to find places they would be visible and also in context; Crescent Road Mazda was half because that angle puts it in context with the 10th St corridor and even a bit of the west end of downtown, and half was an excuse to link to my old photoshop. I was looking for a ground-level in...

A couple of quick approximate views of the six taller towers (3.4m per story, including the main chamfers shown on the diagram in the first post with the building elevations; this is probably more massive than they would be in reality at the upper stories). : From Heritage Hall lawn at SAIT...

With another year of data out, I can update my old charts with a full decade of data! Interesting takeaways for me are transborder really dropping off in the second half of 2025; along with continued strong international growth. Pre-pandemic, international was around 55% of the...

Reminder that Green Line downtown engagement page closes today. https://engage.calgary.ca/greenlinedowntown

Here's a few shots I took at the skijoring in Banff back in January. The town was packed!