Recent content by ByeByeBaby

I strongly doubt it. Statscan methodologies define a downtown as the densest area of employment, plus a 1 km buffer, so the thing that would make our downtown area spatially larger would not be population growth, but more employment near the core (but at densities similar to the very high ones...

Why would the feds pay money for something that was going to happen anyway? That's a terrible waste of public funds. In fact, if the goal is housing affordability, why are any funds coming to the areas where housing is more affordable? HAF funding wasn't based on a single policy, different...

All those new flights are from user 2604:3D08:5D7D:8D30:585B:1233:F73E:1CB2 who has only ever made those changes as well as a handful of new flights on the Seattle airport Wikipedia page, which have already been reverted because there's no evidence they exist. I guess everybody needs a hobby...

You know, another term for 'conflict points' is 'access points'; these are places where cyclists can get to the apartment buildings, townhouses, medical buildings, offices and shops. I think the richest city in Canada should be able to both provide lighting for well-used paths and provide good...

That's awesome; thanks for sharing the link. Here's the swing ridings (assuming no changes from the last election, which is obviously wrong). The turning point riding (would switch from UCP to NDP majority) is Calgary-Acadia, last time it was Calgary-East.

A lot of it could be just general high volume; new communities provide more of a mix than they used to. I picked Belmont as a completely random example. The traditional suburban SFD lots are on the left, and the duplex/townhome ('missing middle') lots are on the right (red lots are sold): I...

As a hint, if you haven't looked at the AB Politics post, the new Buffalo riding with population estimate as of July 2024: The previous Calgary Buffalo (includes the rest of the Centre City as well as Inglewood/Ramsay and Mission/Cliff Bungalow) was 77,635, a difference of 23.4K. As of 2021...

The Cochrane/Airdrie riding isn't really a pickup; we've gone from essentially 4 ridings in the Calgary halo to 5 - but the apparent extra riding is really just due to realigning of other rural areas; the Crossfield/Beiseker/Irriciana area was added to the halo, and the Millarville/Diamond...

Inglewood Drive-In? Higher ethnic diversity than Mountain View, Elbow and Peigan but lower than Buffalo and East? Relatively high levels of multifamily and infill housing? Good views of Stampede fireworks? 57,000 people when combined with East Village, Inglewood, Ramsay, Albert Park...

It's all my own work using QGIS. The population dots are randomly located within Census blocks, with parks and hydrology excluded. The walksheds are based on OpenStreetMap data, using the QNEAT3 plugin.

I've heard about a 20% loss rate if the petition gatherers knew what they were doing (as opposed to our new Councillor Johnston who managed a 100% loss rate on his recall petition).

Based on network distance and Census blocks - 2016 pop is red dots and 2021 is blue dots, contours are 400m walking from Macleod/61st: Basically no net population change; the one place I saw blue dots (at 50th/Macleod) is an artifact of changing census block definitions.

That sounds nice in theory but this isn't a reality show or Cities Skylines. HAF is a multi-year program; why would any city sign an agreement that has them spend money in year 1 that they might not get reimbursed for because factors completely out of their control happen in year 2, 3, or 4...

As you yourself point out, there are a lot of steps in the process between government policy and new housing units, many of which are entirely outside of the control of municipal governments. As it happens, Calgary's had record growth in the past few years. There's another world where oil prices...

That's a good one; I'd call Guadalajara Line 4 light rail (Montreal's REM is not). And maybe Guadalajara knows something (or maybe something is present there) that isn't in Sydney, Paris, Madrid, Taipei, Toronto, Dublin, Lyon, Bordeaux, Utsunomiya, Porto, Tel Aviv, Seattle, Helsinki, Rotterdam...