Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

[maestro]

Can we please get rid of community associations? Why do we allow these associations government money to interfere with developments?? They aren't even voted in by neighborhood members, so why do we recognized them and allow them to interfere?

Community associations still have a greater understanding than developers under pressure to maximize investor contributions. The gaining traction across Canada to eliminate community engagement or even entire planning departments to expedite residential development scares me knowing what developers have been building. However, community engagement should be at the level of building a community growth master plan than individual proposals. The resulting master plan should have teeth whereas a developer can't propose something unexpectedly large that creates this animosity towards intensification.

 

[Calgcouver]

I wonder how temporary this will be. It definitely isn't a sure thing that this will need to be removed. Money well spent.

Am I correct in understanding that this temporary sod area is only for the River Run Townhomes site? If so, an estimated cost of $750k for the project is pretty wild if they are just grading and adding loam/sod to City specs. like 2.5-3X what I would guess for the same scope (permitted that is the scope).

 

[CalgaryTiger]

Am I correct in understanding that this temporary sod area is only for the River Run Townhomes site? If so, an estimated cost of $750k for the project is pretty wild if they are just grading and adding loam/sod to City specs. like 2.5-3X what I would guess for the same scope (permitted that is the scope).

I do think there's more going on, it does mention tree removal. So I assume there's larger site prep happening here AND then they're adding some grass.