Courtney Walcott

Here are some common misunderstandings about rezoning and why it’s important we don’t go back in time! Every Calgarian needs a home!

@troypavlek Assessed value isn’t income, and it’s only wealth upon selling AND buying a new, cheaper home (rare). Your assessed value doesn’t pay taxes, household incomes pay tax. Which are similar between Edmonton and Calgary? Your math should be income vs tax paid vs service received

Farkas says it's an unfair equalization that Calgary pays more education property taxes than Edmonton He didn't do the math. Calgary has $457B of assessment to Edmonton's $220B. The Leg will get $1.2B in YYC prop taxes this year, then return $2.2B in funding YYC school boards.

Further… here are pictures of the Metropolitan Areas that would tell a different story, as claimed. I think it still tells the same story that the CMA is really low density.

Respectfully, this is a misunderstanding of the very quote chosen. It is the grid style and age of established communities that Mr. Kiefer is referring too as being appropriate for density A report that criticizes low density sprawl and endorses sprawl? Consider this #yyccc

@BrockWarkentin @GregGinYYC @JeromyYYC I guess that “supply and demand. Period” was just for drama. But that’s the hypocrisy the report references. Low density at all costs, including the infrastructure that provides us water.

@CWalcottYYC @GregGinYYC @JeromyYYC Nope, because People made their biggest investments under the notion that their communities would not be drastically altered based on the zoning they were told they had at the time of sale. Minor adjustments are ok, these monstrosities that are going up not so much.

“Accommodating growth has been done by in effect robbing monies from some of the sustainment work that should have been ongoing,” Kiefer told council. More evidence the Housing Strategy and rezoning is good policy. For affordability, and for infrastructure. @JeromyYYC #yyccc

@BrockWarkentin @GregGinYYC @JeromyYYC Also: Edmonton...

@GregGinYYC @CWalcottYYC @JeromyYYC Still monstrously cheaper than all other major metros in Canada Like insanely cheaper? Why you might ask? Supply and demand my friend, supply lowers the costs. Period

"With a repeal of parts of the Housing Strategy next, I wonder who we’ll blame when another system breaks from underinvestment." Next up: Repealing rezoning - the same short term thinking that led to decades of infrastructure underinvestment. calgaryherald.com/opinion/column…

@BrockWarkentin @JeromyYYC And look at the position prioritizing sprawl put the City in. That’s why growth in our established areas, including rezoning, is good for the City.

@CWalcottYYC @JeromyYYC Accommodating growth is a housing strategy

Today #yyccc is learning about the reasons behind the Bearspaw Feedermain pipe break. One key factor is #yyc's urban sprawl & low density growth. This comes as Council looks to repeal blanket rezoning. Will Mayor @JeromyYYC or anyone else on council reconsider their decision now?

@LRTontheGreen @kylegolsen @JeromyYYC Where it would fall short is that it would no longer qualify for any CMHC financing with affordability requirements. A duplex with suites really just means two $1 million+ homes and 2 $2500 suites So much concern over parking we’re forgetting about **affordability**

@kylegolsen @JeromyYYC This concept works in #yyccc's favour. A semi detached with 2 secondary suites is viewed as 2 dwelling units in #yyc but the Feds see it as 4. So very easy to use gentle density to hit the HAF requirement. Unfortunately it would still require some form of blanket rezoning.

Mayor @JeromyYYC & #yyccc are going to extreme lengths to dance around the fact the Housing Accelerator Fund required cities to commit to 4 units as-of-right base zoning. Do the Feds care what that looks like? No, but they care that it happens Have a look: assets.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/sites/cmhc/pro…

Imagine being a professional writer and you write - without irony - that building homes is equivalent to war. This comparison wouldn’t pass in an elementary school essay, but today it passes for journalism. Sorry @AndrewKnack you have to deal with this foolishness.

This was an issue with #greenlineyyc & is now an issue with rezoning. Oppononts build a narrative that rezoning isn't working, say facts support them, find out the fact don't support them at all, dismiss the study, say the facts don't tell the full story. livewirecalgary.com/2025/12/02/new…

@EMMacEwan What subsidies has Calgary offered any missing middle housing developers? Office conversion aside And yes reasons are complex, which is why I’m confused as to your unwillingness to acknowledge that everything you’ve mentioned + the housing strategy contributed to Calgary’s edge.

@CWalcottYYC And yes. When corporations are subsidized and grow their market share through tax payer funding, it almost always ends up poorly for people in the long run. Especially the people you refer to as vulnerable and insecure.

It’s embarrassing how housing opponents use the most vulnerable and housing insecure as props in their pursuit of power and control over their neighborhood. “Calgarians for Thoughtful Growth” don’t care about people in need - they care about control.

@EMMacEwan You think this is what is in the best interest of corporations? Housing prices and rent prices going down?

@CWalcottYYC Money = Power = Control. Thoughtful Calgarians aren't the ones subsidizing real estate development for corporate interests (ie rentals) or paving the way for them via municipal policy manipulation.

@franocavar All the long term funding strategies will be shuttered, and the funding will go to programs designed to be completely wrapped up in a single year. This will impact how organizations plan and deliver programming because funds are now even more precarious and unpredictable.

Looking for some clarity on what this means for the city’s community mental health framework #yyccc

Yeah. Non-Profit leaders, social workers, home builders, the homeless sector, affordable housing providers. So secretive. How dare these people make recommendations without checking in with you. So rude.