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The city will allow buildings of just about any height in downtown, Victoria park, and east village if you ask nicely so the value of “air rights” has to be close to zero

Any guesses when we will see a month with traffic ahead of 2019 comparable?

Look at the note below your red box - it's just to align the zoning with the as-built building. Probably will make future change-of-use applications easier as the CRUs turn over.

Lethbridge, Banff-Kananaskis, St Albert, and Sherwood Park will also be very competitive but that’s only 5 seats. If Danielle Smith is doubling down on rural areas, I am hoping that Rachel Notley goes for some expensive political pandering in Calgary. We can be bought Rachel - Green Line...

I think they will still do 737 Max service from Toronto to Europe

There are hundreds of thousands of skiers in Calgary. There are maybe hundreds of luge/skeleton/bobsledders. The bobsled track is interesting and unique but I can see why the board is spending limited resources on the facilities that actually get used by the general public.

The only disappointment for me of U/D so far is the lack of transit integration. Yeah, a streetcar or a gondola would be cool, but more practically: - The max orange station is not well integrated with either the children's hospital nor U/D - Service on the max orange (11 min peak, 20-30 min...

Geotechnical drill on the Kensington Manor site. The "Conditionally Sold" sign is still up, so presumably this is related to satisfying the conditions of the sale.

They are removing a gravel bar in the river for flood control: The Centre Street Gravel Bar Modifications project includes removing accumulated gravel in the Bow River located under the Centre Street bridge near eastbound Memorial Drive. Following the 2013 flood, gravel has accumulated in the...

LG should not give assent to an blatantly unconstitutional law passed by the Legislature, 100%. This is not that. A private citizen with no seat in the Legislature, who is a candidate for political office, has floated a policy proposal. LG should not be saying anything in this circumstance.

As much as I think both Smith and her policy proposals are horrible, very poor move on the LG’s part in my opinion. LG should absolutely not be making speculative comments about policy proposals, especially not from candidates in the midst of an election campaign. Even commenting on tabled...

I have to think the NDP platform for the next election is going to include some substantial infrastructure goodies including significant transit investments. No sense rolling them out now but once the new UCP leader is elected I would expect a steady drumbeat of funding promises between November...

Even with only 60/120 units occupied at 1.5 people per unit that's 90 more residents. I am genuinely confused why we see projects like Tigerstedt block and this one proposed when there are surface parking lots nearby. I think part of the dynamic is that it takes effort and skill on the part...

It's been said before but I don't see much traction developing until 4, 5, 6, and 9 avenues are made less hostile. My hope is that the residential conversions start to create the political will and imagination required.

Projects like this increase vibrancy by increasing the number of people living in the neighborhood. On the retail side this one is probably a wash, since a well functioning heritage retail space is lost. But all those new tenants will walk to shops all around the neighborhood, helping out with...

They do weed the medians a few times a summer but the poppies get outcompeted pretty fast.

I wish this were on the parking lot across the street, but it’s not. I’m in favour of adding people and investment to the area in the hope that the surrounding lots get some development momentum too, like we’ve seen at 5th St SW and 14th St SW on the same avenue.

If I bought this lot, I would apply for 3-5m less than whatever JEMM can get approved across from Safeway. Presumably you can find 8 votes on council for that.

I would bet that the real issue at the moment is that these ENGOs would love some funding to do various environmental studies and they are annoyed that Liricon isn't talking to them / funding them, so they are going to the press to complain. Some organisations will oppose the train if it goes to...

I think it's pretty fanciful to imagine the developer intentionally burned down the existing building, if that's what you mean. But the site wasn't particularly well boarded up, and it was well known that homeless people were camping out inside, so negligence/ignorance on the part of the...