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Are you referring to assessed value from a property tax point of view? Or for how much it would cost for a developer to buy that land? If we’re doing say a 20 story building with 160 units that would easily generate more property tax, and what they’re paying. Unless businesses pay a higher rate...

Seven years since the first post, probably makes it the longest running project we have.

I don’t think the rendering shows the true scale of what the sidewalks will be, there’s barely enough room for a wheelchair to use them. They’ll probably be four or 5 inches wider than what is shown in the rendering..

Even if they did that for Stephen Avenue, it would be nice for the tourists.

How are we feeling about the Flames making the playoffs? When they beat Seattle, I was thinking 65 to 70% chance but now I’m thinking it’s 50-50 maybe not even.

I’m glad to see the Business association supports it. It should offset opposition from some of the residents.

It’s not the most exciting design, but serves a good purpose.

Agreed that 33rd is a destination and I’m sure some of the retail customers come in from Crowchild. If not cutting off crow child access altogether maybe they’re still need to be better traffic light control or something. Right now it’s kind of a mess with all those cars from Crowchild.

It would have to be an industrial area to avoid nimby opposition, but what’s actually stopping at from being in an industrial area? What are these core services that the people require, besides the Chumir’s safe injection site? Moving the safe injection site to a location right next to the drop...

I would love to see Crowchild’s access to 33rd cut off. It’s not ever going to happen in car centric Calgary, but we can dream.

The article also indirectly highlights the issue that was discussed in the taxation discussion. A house in Rundle is much cheaper per square foot than a house of the same size in the core. A lot of that is due to location but part of it is due to taxes. When you pay more for taxes on your 2...

They should just ask permission to use the photos here. They’d be up to date.

I’m sorry, but I don’t buy that. Rich people will always have their houses somewhere and middle-class neighbourhoods like Glamorgan or Rundle will always exist as well. Calgary‘s problem is they haven’t been taxing some of those inefficient middle class neighbourhoods well enough in my opinion...

Rich people who are living within walking distance of downtown are paying fuck ton of taxes that’s what the whole point was. The medium sized house in Mount Royal, is paying six times the amount of taxes as somebody in Rundle with the same sized lot. The whole discussion was about tax...

Statscan has numbers for different areas in the city. The numbers aren't as easy to find as they were in the city census info, but I recall they are in the census tract numbers or some such.

They were hot pink yesterday.

I’m sure Ontario will bounce back in interprovincial migration. They seem to go up and down on a regular basis. We also have to remember that Ontario is by far the biggest landing place for international immigrants. Their movements are quite fluid when they first arrive as they haven’t set...

So happy to see France lose in the final. France and their back room dealings is one of the reasons Qatar was able to buy their way to hosting the cup.

I don’t know if anyone stills visits the Canada section in SSP, but seeing these numbers would make the Alberta haters cry haha.

Holy frak! 52K net gain in one quarter! 20k of that from interprovincial is impressive. Too bad there aren’t stats saying where the people are coming from.. My semi educated guess says a large number of them are from the suburbs of the GTA.