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Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

Albertasaurus said:
/\Totally agree. So disheartening to scan around downtown and beltline to find a bunch of applications for signs, change of use or the worst, parking lot renewals. A filter of sorts would seem to be a no-brainer, and not that hard to do.
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After about a decade they finally got rid of the permanent "Click to here to never see this pop up again" popup. Let's not ask for too much.
 
Surrealplaces said:
calgary.ctvnews.ca

Downtown Calgary park reopens after undergoing major makeover

A park in Calgary's Beltline has reopened after undergoing a redesign.
calgary.ctvnews.ca calgary.ctvnews.ca
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Not sure why CTV didn't include any photos of the actual park, but here is one from the city's website
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CalgaryTiger said:
I don't know a lot but I do know concrete costs money. Then why do we "widen" sidewalks to not actually make their usable space any bigger?

Between the boxes, trees and lamp posts could they not just make a green strip in that section?
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Agreed. I have heard The City is moving away from grass boulevards due to maintenance costs, and I've noticed some of them in Beltline are now some form of fake grass (which looks terrible IMO). If maintenance costs are an issue (someone told me the reason is GHG emissions due to maintenance which seems rather over-the-top silly) could they not use low maintenance xeriscaping such as rocks and prairie grasses?
 
Albertasaurus said:
Agreed. I have heard The City is moving away from grass boulevards due to maintenance costs, and I've noticed some of them in Beltline are now some form of fake grass (which looks terrible IMO). If maintenance costs are an issue (someone told me the reason is GHG emissions due to maintenance which seems rather over-the-top silly) could they not use low maintenance xeriscaping such as rocks and prairie grasses?
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You'd think they could spare some expense for the centre of the city with thousands of visitors each day.
 
Albertasaurus said:
Agreed. I have heard The City is moving away from grass boulevards due to maintenance costs, and I've noticed some of them in Beltline are now some form of fake grass (which looks terrible IMO). If maintenance costs are an issue (someone told me the reason is GHG emissions due to maintenance which seems rather over-the-top silly) could they not use low maintenance xeriscaping such as rocks and prairie grasses?
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Speaking on maintenance, the snow needs somewhere to go, a green island of rocks and resilient native species would be a pretty good place to shovel the snow. As long as it isn't filled with salt from lazy snow clearing.
 
CalgaryTiger said:
I don't know a lot but I do know concrete costs money. Then why do we "widen" sidewalks to not actually make their usable space any bigger?

Between the boxes, trees and lamp posts could they not just make a green strip in that section?
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Not a planner...but would guess it's that balance of creating tree canopy over marquee streets and then safety by pushing people a bit further from the street??
 
CalgaryTiger said:

How much power should a property owner have on what one property owner wants to build next door?
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I can't imagine spending a bunch of time trying to stifle progress instead of sitting on your porch and enjoying a cocktail in your presently idyllic situation that you don't want to ever ever ever change. But to each their own.

"Frankly, my personal view is city council has kind of lost its way. They're focused on density for density's sake without thinking about density that can actually provide affordable homes and help solve the housing crisis," he said.

Lahodey said he was concerned the housing that will be built under the zoning bylaw passed in May will not result in affordable homes for Calgarians, but instead create smaller, equally unaffordable homes.
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The lamest and laziest common argument against this without ever suggesting an alternative situation. If they want true affordability, then a government housing project next door is the answer!
 
lemongrab said:
I can't imagine spending a bunch of time trying to stifle progress instead of sitting on your porch and enjoying a cocktail in your presently idyllic situation that you don't want to ever ever ever change. But to each their own.


The lamest and laziest common argument against this without ever suggesting an alternative situation. If they want true affordability, then a government housing project next door is the answer!
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He has read too much about small condos in toronto. That's not what this is sir. Affordable housing is VE'd development but it is also the older apartment that someone moves out of to move into a more expensive newer apartment. Problem in Calgary is we don't have a lot of the latter so we need to do the former.
 
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There's a lot of activity going on beside the Rocky Ridge YMCA. Does anyone know what development that is?
 

More spin on the rezoning decision. Wonder how much these consultants are going to cost. The consultation process will never take in the complete input of the participants, since the participants are existing residents and generally older that nothing will get built in the city. We have representative democracy for a reason, we can not going to put everything to citizen votes/decisions.
 
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