I get where you’re coming from, we have so many empty or under-utilized parcels within a 3 or 4 km radius around the core, I’d be happy with a two story building, as long as it has retail CRUs.
I like Calgary’s dense compact core, but Calgary needs to spread had density out a bit.
I know lots of people who don’t like bike lanes, mostly they don’t like the cost and complain that they never see people using them.
I’m in full support of bike lanes, even I though don’t ride a bike very often. I figure good cities need good infrastructure for everybody.
At my place of work...
Nose Hill Park is over 3000 acres and most of it is bald prairie. You could add a few more clusters of trees here and there, and it would still be over 90% prairie.