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Go Elevated or try for Underground?

  • Work with the province and go with the Elevated option

    Votes: 10 76.9%

  • Try another approach and go for Underground option

    Votes: 2 15.4%

  • Cancel it altogether

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Total voters
    13
CalgaryTiger said:
Is it not building value that determines how much property tax you pay?
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It doesn't change tax revenue raised by the city. Which is a different thing. A property being higher valued lowers tax paid by others, and a property being lower in value raises tax paid by others. But the revenue to the city is the same.
 
darwink said:
It doesn't change tax revenue raised by the city. Which is a different thing. A property being higher valued lowers tax paid by others, and a property being lower in value raises tax paid by others. But the revenue to the city is the same.
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Yes, I guess what I was saying was that to the city it is a wash. Same thing, but maybe not well said by me.
 
Its not dead yet...
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Joborule said:
2 Street SW is a dead zone with nothing at all except at Stephen Avenue.
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I don't see how this could be true for any part of 2 St, except for the 1.5 blocks south of 9 Ave? And I guess the northernmost part of it at Eau Claire.

That said, I am cool with elevated tracks along 2 St. I just don't see what you mean by "dead zone".
 
MichaelS said:
It was because the City doesn't own the land for 5th Street, Remington does, and they (Remington) were not willing to part with it.
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Neither did the Eau Claire condo owners...

I would have thought that parcel was contiguous right up to the bus barns. It appears to be that way on the property tax map, but showing a ROW for 6th (though I suspect that was recently negotiated...)
 
badc0ffee said:
I don't see how this could be true for any part of 2 St, except for the 1.5 blocks south of 9 Ave? And I guess the northernmost part of it at Eau Claire.

That said, I am cool with elevated tracks along 2 St. I just don't see what you mean by "dead zone".
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Apologies, not the best use of words. I mean in regards of CRU's, there isn't anything being lost by the impacts of a elevated line. It doesn't have the urban realm potential like 1 Street SW or what they would like 3 Street SW to be like in the core. Those are streets that should be protected. 2 Street can function as a elevated transit corridor.
 
MichaelS said:
It was because the City doesn't own the land for 5th Street, Remington does, and they (Remington) were not willing to part with it.
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I believe the problem with 5th street was the province owning the parcels for the future rail station that they've owned for almost 2 decades now. Can't cut the access. Can't expropriate them.
 
badc0ffee said:
I don't see how this could be true for any part of 2 St, except for the 1.5 blocks south of 9 Ave? And I guess the northernmost part of it at Eau Claire.

That said, I am cool with elevated tracks along 2 St. I just don't see what you mean by "dead zone".
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IIRC from doing a street view tour there doesn't seem to be a single street level CRU between Eau Clair and 9th
 
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