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I’m a regular customer of at least half the businesses of that strip mall. I hope it stays. Most of those businesses would not be able to find comparable spaces in Marda Loop. Anyway, the whole point of this small-scale development is that it fits into the spaces in between existing buildings...

"Freedom is not free", but also the public needs "health and appropriate boundaries" imposed on them. Hmmm... 🤔 I wonder what boundaries they think we need on our lives.

Good he's finally getting the recognition he deserves in this city...

Whenever this happens, it inevitably leads to police brutality, which results in even further distrust/opposition to the police. This is EXACTLY what just happened in Memphis. A police squad was assembled with the task of "bringing order back to the streets" and they ended up beating someone to...

Most people don't realize that in the early 1970s, US President Nixon started this thing called the "War on Drugs" which led to a continual ratcheting up of prison time for drug trafficking over the next three decades. I didn't pay attention to what happened afterward, but I can only assume that...

I'm really skeptical of this claim. Seems like it's based on treating concrete curbs, islands, and dividers as not part of the area dedicated to vehicles (when they clearly are): That's just it. This renovation was designed to improve the way the restaurant works for drivers picking up food...

They really shouldn't have approved this McDonalds. I remember then councillor Evan Woolley promoting the project, arguing that if McDonald's wasn't able to build another drive-thru, then they weren't going to do any renovations at all. From his view, it was better to have a new building, even...

🤮 Oh god! I hate that blue column so much. It looks like it should be in the middle of a parking lot in Deerfoot Meadows.

It's fine to stroll or even jog or bike (sometimes) through a cemetery. They're great and unique urban spaces. Kids love looking for the oldest grave they can find. Goths love posing for Instagram photos there. Tourists like visiting the graves of famous people. Most great cities have great...

It's not a shame at all. It's a source of much needed green space in the inner-city and provides land use variation. To dig it up for development would just make the inner-city more homogeneous. It's a fraction of the size of Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto and Mount Royal cemetery in...

I'm waiting in anticipation for the day a developer has the guts to start buying up houses on the Mount Royal side of 14 street. A lot of those houses are looking pretty rough, and it would a great opportunity to clean up this mess of an intersection.

This happens to be Harlem, but it could be in Boston, or Philadelphia, or Baltimore, or any number of other American industrial cities in the late 19th century. Tenements and rowhouses went up everywhere with cheap, mass produced ornamentation like artificial stone and sheet metal. People...

Damn mass produced buildings! Everything looks the same!

Rich people pay higher taxes than poor people! I feel like I'm banging my head against a wall here. Why is everyone on this thread ignoring or dismissing the issue of poverty? If you want to own a mansion within walking distance of City Hall, you should be paying a fuck ton of property taxes. If...

It was kind of a joke (and kind of not). But the main thrust of this discussion has been about unlocking the property tax potential of more areas of the city. From that perspective (and putting aside all other concerns like housing diversity, tree canopy, etc.), it makes way more sense to...

There's a chicken and egg issue here. There's not a lot of densification in the older suburbs because they are poor areas. There's less demand to move there. In fact, most of those areas are actually losing population and becoming less dense. Upper mount royal has a population density of...

Isn't this just a function of property values? Property values are highest in the gentrified inner city and newly built houses in the suburban edge. They're lowest within the aging suburbs, which are also the most affordable areas (and therefore where the poorest Calgarians live). Presumably the...

Any more monotonous than when Marda Loop was just block after block of identical square bungalows?

Touche. I guess I should say, Calgary's inner-city is not the vast swath of empty dirt lots and strip malls, crisscrossed by expressways that you find in the US. The redevelopment of the East Village and River's District is very different than what's happening in Oak Lawn and Old East Dallas.