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Red Star said:
Heritage homes are what gives the neighborhood it's edge over new areas like Seton or U/D.
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I agree that the old buildings are part of the appeal, but I think there's way more to it than that. You can walk to the river from there, walk downtown, walk to the Saddledome, and are close to multiple prominent bar and restaurant strips. There are blocks and blocks of walkable streets.

U/D is a fairly small urban island, and relatively speaking, Seton is basically in the middle of nowhere.
 
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Mountain Man said:
Heritage homes have character for sure, but the inner city needs much more density, so some of them have to be sacrificed unfortunately.
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I generally agree.

The destruction of the Pre-WW1 homes and the 1940's apartment building would be more palatable to me if there wasn't already a large inventory of vacant lots or underutilized sites within the inner city. To me it's sad to see the destruction of historic buildings when 400m away there's a massive underutilized site.

Think of how many people could live on this city block, if everything outside the blue box was was redeveloped to residential.
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In a vacuum, sure. This just doesn't take into account the many other factors that are the reasons for that vacant or underutilized land. Development goes where the land owners are willing and able to do it. Vacant land or parking lots could be taxed at their zoned median rate and that would encourage land owners to actually develop? Email your councillor.
 
Mountain Man said:
Heritage homes have character for sure, but the inner city needs much more density, so some of them have to be sacrificed unfortunately.
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There are only a few heritage homes left in the inner city unfortunately. These houses were some of the first houses built in the city and you can’t really get that history back once you destroy it.
 
CalgaryTiger said:
In a vacuum, sure. This just doesn't take into account the many other factors that are the reasons for that vacant or underutilized land. Development goes where the land owners are willing and able to do it. Vacant land or parking lots could be taxed at their zoned median rate and that would encourage land owners to actually develop? Email your councillor.
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That's what I'm trying to say.

I wish there was public policy in place to incentivize the protection of heritage properties and incentivize the redevelopment of underutilized land within the inner city.
 
demodazed said:
There are only a few heritage homes left in the inner city unfortunately. These houses were some of the first houses built in the city and you can’t really get that history back once you destroy it.
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In downtown / beltline I agree there are few left, inner city includes the communities north of the Bow and there are tons of heritage homes in those communities still. Inglewood / Ramsay also have a ton as well, though the houses are definitely under pressure in all of these areas and there should be pockets that are protected.
 
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