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Good call on laneway, that's often forgotten when discussing putting 2 units on a lot.

It will be interesting to see if Airdrie can pass Red Deer and Lethbridge in the next decade. If they all kept up at current rates Red Deer would be passed around 2030 and Lethbridge around 2033. It's crazy the growth Airdriesauga is experiencing.

I've been doing some thinking about what exactly the effect of the up-zoning will be. Some thoughts Areas that currently are zoned for RC-2 and are planned to be up-zoned to R-CG I think there will be little effect. I doubt any applications to up-zone individual lots to allow for row-housing in...

Those are interesting properties. All of the houses on 30th ave originally had super deep lots, like 350 ft deep, when there was just open prairie behind them. Actually you can see all of those houses east of Edmonton trail did as well (1948) Distinct visual property lines on the north half...

Who was the previous planning gm?

Anyone else getting any toronto urban planning spam? I've been getting emails the past few months and just today noticed that they're all coming from different email addresses. I'm not sure what the angle is since the events are real**, neither the emails nor pdfs have links in them, and...

And also Centre st especially north of 16th avenue

Today I learned affording $400k purchases is for poors.

I believe historically Calgary has annexed neighbouring municipalities when they decided that being part of Calgary would reduce their service costs. So if Chestermere comes knocking it can be discussed but of course in return Calgary's density rules would need to apply. The only other option I...

What's happening with the Blues Can again? Edit: nevermind, found it https://calgary.skyrisecities.com/forum/threads/calgary-i-blues-by-battistella-i-17m-i-4s-i-battistella-developments-i-lola-architecture.37458

Honestly I'd rather see an acreage than completely unused land. At least that would give a half block a 'cared for' appearance vs an abandoned appearance. I'm not a LVT evangelist so I don't care what the solution might be, but there must be an effective way to discourage long term land hoarding...

But are these parcels that sit vacant for decades really doing so because of ease or lack thereof of assembly? I would support such a tax not kicking in for say 5 years. And probably only applying in downtown/beltline, at first anyway.

Need a land value tax or some sort of hybrid. It's crazy that in the middle of a housing crises it's cheaper/easier to hold onto empty land than retain the housing.

This reminds me of the parcel here https://www.google.com/maps/@51.0583373,-114.1370467,89m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu that was Calgary Transit public parking, put in place in the mid 1950s when the city build out was only 3 blocks beyond it, probably for the residents of the towns of Montgomery...

I can't believe ~2700 people are against this, that's incredible. All I can think of is that it's a 'give an inch and they'll take a mile' mentality, ie if we allow any towers our suburban communities will be destroyed with towers everywhere.

Does anyone know what happened with this?

Look what I found (1996)

Is it just a case of only needing a single property vs needing to spend a much longer time in order to buy two adjacent ones in order to build 6 story?

I wonder if they're maintaining a partially demolished building T2 to retain parking underneath it?

I'm going to call this a win because this is the 1st St SW interface that is going to be replaced with retail: