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The best things about the deal are that Conroy has figured out that it's possible to retain salary, which the ownership hasn't let happen previously, and that it signals a move into more of an actual rebuild, rather than the traditional MO of being just good enough to get two to three home...

"What's the temperature right now in Calgary?" "Plus 11. Also minus 5." This is a hell of a cold front coming in. My condolences to everyone out there with migraines; I'm feeling a little myself. Here it is from 1 to 2 PM today:

Not a bad start on the NIMBY bingo card from the CA spokesperson: Good points raised -- the city loves to frequently approve unsafe buildings if only the CA wasn't on the case. Building code building shmode, the city says. And, yes the impact on Tom Campbell's Hill; building a tall building...

Despite the developer's name, I'd vote yea for this one.

If you can't possibly imagine how not having a home with a bed and a toilet could prevent a person from defecating and sleeping in public, then I'm not sure I'd be throwing around the "engage with reality" type talk.

Great point! If I read the fine print correctly, the Shawnessy site has half of the units including a carport; it seems like for a bit more money, they could have had the same 52 3BR units, plus 27 1 bedroom ~600 sq ft units (and a total of 33 stalls). The Whitehorn site has only on-street...

HomeSpace to develop two Calgary emergency housing sites Two emergency housing sites; one near Whitehorn LRT and one near Fish Creek LRT have had HomeSpace selected as the group; they plan to put 52 three-bedroom townhouses on each site as transitional housing for families in need.

If you know who did something, you don't need to be suspicious, do you? 😉

per setlist.fm: (excluding artists playing during sports events, obviously.) 2023: Luke Combs 2022: Poison/Mötley Crüe/Def Leppard; Garth Brooks (2 nights) 2021: Nobody 2020: Nobody 2019: Nobody 2018: Nobody 2017: Metallica; Guns N' Roses 2016: Beyoncé; Fort McMurray Fire Aid concert 2015...

My if-I-ran-the-city-as-a-dictator idea is a street frontage vacancy tax, at least in pedestrian-oriented areas. I don't know how much it would have to be to get REITs to lower rents, but even if they held steady, it could be a nice little pot of revenue (devote it to pedestrian realm...

This is one location where a ped overpass actually makes a great deal of sense -- all of the surrounding residential lands are already 3-5m above the road level. Looked at the air photos; to me it seems like JLB was really intended as a north/south route. 1957: Before any construction in the...

Reminder that there is already a busy-during-events pedestrian crossing of both Macleod and the LRT at grade, at the south end of Erlton station. It's staffed during Stampede, but I've never seen an operational problem with it in the few dozen times I've crossed there during Stampede.

Don't worry, the Oilers will sign him. But in all seriousness, the assuming that this is true, the Flames really screwed up here. Spot the difference: (These are three of the other four players it seems; the fifth isn't in the NHL.) If -- as it appears -- Dubé's "mental health" break is...

Just to make it interesting, I'll take 85K (I think 80K is the highest anyone has gone so far.)

Airport staff taking transit is by far a stronger case for transit than for visitors. Multiply 24,000 (a high number -- plenty of airport workers don't work in the terminal itself) by 250 work days a year and 2 trips a day (to and from work) and you have 12 million, which is not that...

I've posted on here in favour of land value taxes before, but I crunched the numbers last fall, and changed my mind. (Unfortunately, a poorly timed Excel crash lost all of my data.) At the risk of derailing this into a discussion about urban development: A property is two things; a building and...

Last two seasons are a good indicator of the teams potential, which is probably 3 home playoff games at best. Keep Weegar and Backlund, you can't trade Huberdeau and Kadri, and the rest of the roster should be whoever comes up from the Wranglers. Few teams have as good a chance to do a full...

I disagree. Bad drivers are a symptom of the problem, but trying to solve it at that level is doomed to failure. "All we need to do to fix this is for every single one of a million different people to each individually increase their skill and effort just because it's the right thing to do" is a...

As a side note, I recall the traditional 50/50 capital funding ratio between roads and transit included the Crowchild Trail freeway interchanges in the "transit" side of the funding pie since they were being done in conjunction with the LRT extension.

I don't think the specific buzzword TOD existed until the mid 1990s (a 3 second search seems to credit Calthorpe in 1993). But the key principles existed. From 1995: And there's been a formal TOD policy for about 20 years now: