Recent content by MichaelS

Different. Keynote 4 was an office building, I have heard these (yes, plural) will be residential.

Where is this?

About 10 years ago, The City spent a bunch of money redoing 61st Avenue as a pedestrian promenade. It is done. Before After

Remember Truman wasn't the original developer of this one, they purchased it after the DP was approved I think.

This part of the city still hates seeing townhomes..... https://calgaryherald.com/news/springbank-hill-residents-call-on-city-to-postpone-housing-project

Crombie REIT is the owner of that site, and they list it as "future development", but no real plans by the sounds of it: https://www.crombie.ca/development/410-10-street-nw/

I suppose our rec centres all typically have 1-2 water slides in them, but I am surprised Calgary doesn't have a large indoor, year-round water park similar to the scale of the one in West Edmonton Mall. I feel that would be quite popular here, given how young our demographics are.

I hope the barbershop on the ground floor makes it through construction, those guys are great, were my go-to when I lived downtown.

Isn't the bolded part essentially what a "discretionairy" use in our land use bylaw allows for? So many relaxations granted. I suppose you could always appeal that if you are a neighbour, but it is still "at the discretion" of the planner.

The City does have parking policies that support significant parking reductions, specifically if you look at Section 4.2 of the policy document, you will see these policies: The challenge is, what happens if 1b. is true at the time of DP, but over time, redevelopment occurs, and no longer...

And even though it is part of a car centric shopping centre, Aspen Landing actually has a decent internal streetscape...

I think the challenge is if you look at Transit as a whole, and the mountain of money going to the Green Line, it is hard for transit to cry poor. Perhaps some better prioritization a decade ago would have lead to a better overall transit network, but c'est la vie.

My money is on Farkas. Sharp is great at being negative, but if pushed, I have yet to hear a great thought out policy from her. Just complaining. Great. You don't like blanket rezoning, but when you continue to vote against TOD development, are you advocating for endless sprawl?

They should be covered via the 8th Street streetscape I think

The DP for Town Centre Site 2 has been submitted. it is an apartment building and assisted living complex, a private school, retail, and includes a plus 15 connection to the clock tower: https://dmap.calgary.ca/?p=DP2025-04126