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Christian Laventure
@CNiperL
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Calgary, Alberta 🍁 • He/Him Katılım Kasım 2017
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@KybrdWrrr @JCraig_Miles Which is exactly why we shouldnt repeat it :)
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@CNiperL @JCraig_Miles Vancouver’s strategy over 40 years is still an unaffordable city.
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Someone ask the Astroturfer why taxes haven’t gone down despite Calgary aggressively building more housing?
This is More Neighbours. Just because their voices seem louder and they have connections doesn’t mean they represent all Calgarians.
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I thought Blanket Rezoning was about making Homes more Affordable? This “Advocate” admits it’s really about Collecting more Property Taxes. Personally, I don’t think the City should be able to Fundamentally change entire Established Communities just to boost their bottom line.
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@KybrdWrrr @JCraig_Miles Vancouver used the exact same strategy for 40 years that Calgary city council now wants to default to: nodes and corridors. Look at a zoning map from 2018, you'd be shocked that the majority of the city is zoned for SFHs!
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@CNiperL @JCraig_Miles is subjective based on your POV. You made a comment about affordability. Vancouver has been aggressive in rezoning but is still unaffordable. Affordable homes and apartments are demolished and residents are displaced.
You still haven’t answered my question about your group.
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@KybrdWrrr @JCraig_Miles Im not shocked at all! I'm used to hearing this sort of discussion online and in person. My goal is always to present another perspective based in research and fact, using the wealth of knowledge we have from cities around the world.
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@CNiperL @JCraig_Miles It seems to be shocking to you that others have valid ideas, feedback and concerns. Many have reviewed city documents, listened and read about experiences in other jurisdictions. There seem to be several groups who have the same names behind them. Your definition of “best”
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@MattPisko @KybrdWrrr This is exactly why we're advocating for reducing sprawl.
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@KybrdWrrr @CNiperL New housing generates property tax revenue, but it also creates ongoing service obligations: roads, transit, policing, fire, waste, parks, recreation, libraries.
These are operating costs, not one-time costs—and they grow with population. /1
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr But I am unaware. This reality is unfortunately, largely an invented fabrication. You should come down in person to meet the people involved instead of being an online expert.
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr I know you are not unaware of the groups I’m referring to or the people they are composed of if you are actively volunteering with groups on this file. That leads me to question why you pretend to be ignorant of what’s happening.
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr You keep calling me others who are very real, astroturfers... I wonder if it's shocking to you that real Calgarians have views different from yours on what good city building is.
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr Like I said, there’s a reason why all the astroturf groups in Calgary revolves around the same people. Theres a reason why these groups have connections to #yyccc offices, city planning dept, Prov NDP. It’s not for my wellbeing.
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@KybrdWrrr @JCraig_Miles Which one of us is on the side of changing the status quo?
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@CNiperL @JCraig_Miles One thing these groups forget is that “better” place is subjective and needs and desires change over time.
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr I don't know man, I'd love to invite you down to one of our volunteer meetups so you can see who we are. We have basically 0 money, we're using libraries to print lit LOL
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr Could it be that you are being deliberately naive? When the execution of “better place” always seems to put money in the same pockets I’ll choose to take that with a massive grain of salt.
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr Could it be that some people are passionate about making the city a better place? What you're writing doesn't sound like evidence
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr Think about all these groups, meeting in pubs, city planners, city admin people, #yyccc staffers, developers staff, money guys, all circling around, influencing policy, influencing what lands on managers/council desks. It’s not an accident the same names pop up over & over
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr Where are these deals? I genuinely think this a convenient conspiracy, but if you have evidence, then share!
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr Then you know who was pushing and pulling the strings. You say with a straight face it wasn’t driven by those with a vested interest. I see the deals being made all the time. It’s not a mystery
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr I mean, I was a part of this effort and I certainly don't have a vested interest. I did it so that I could help my kid one day afford to live here. I think a lot of other volunteers I met had the same motivations. Who do you think the brown bags were for?
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr And they were sponsored and assembled by people who all had vested increases in value of RE market. None of it was benign . None of it came from people who only wanted what’s best for city. It came from backroom deals and brown paper bags changing hands.
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr Except this works in exactly the opposite way when it's applied to the whole city at once. Instead of development pressure being super intense, it's spread out over all available R-CG lots. Why don't you think we'll reach more affordable housing by making more supply?
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr Cruise around in my neck of the woods. More supply only equals lower cost once you’ve reached saturation levels. Which we never will. Meanwhile rezoning has caused massive increases in land costs. Raising prices of existing homes which negatively impacts affordability.
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr Route ahead and guidebook precisely look to address these types of issues, though. At the end of the day I want our city to be the best it can be for as many people as possible. It seems to be another beast to politically get there, though.
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr There is a massive trust deficit with city and #yyccc. We all know how long term city planning goes. That’s how we got in this mess with route ahead, guidebook, pipes2026 and all the other back of a napkin schemes decided behind closed doors and bars in this city.
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@KybrdWrrr @JCraig_Miles There's a site near my house that has to pay something like 550K to upgrade water to build a small apartment complex + daycare over an abandoned school site. Expensive since our whole community will benefit from the new infra, and future developers benefit without contrib.
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@CNiperL @JCraig_Miles get HAF and utility rate funding for local water and wastewater pipe upgrades. Our federal taxes and utility ratepayers are helping developers in established areas. What more tweaking do you expect?
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr Sorry man, I don't think that's true. There's development pressure on a lot of the inner community. I live in Erlton, you should checkout what mansions are built when it's the easiest type of thing to build on a SF lot. Massively unaffordable. More supply = lower cost
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr Speaking of correlation ≠ causation. Tearing down affordable SFH to replace with row housing that costs significantly more to rent than the home that was torn down does not and will not ever create affordability. It causes the scale to slide on what affordable is defined as.
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr It'd be nice if there was a concrete plan, maybe through the LAPs, that defined what the 40 year vision for investment in the city looks like if it hits certain population milestones. Difficult on a 4 year budget cycle? Doesn't sound impossible though
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr Thing is though the city is making an ask of the impacted communities that have density increasing. “Trust me bro” coming from the city that infra will be improved after the fact is a massive ask. There has been no good faith on this file from city since day 1 #yyccc
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr Dang! I don't want to ask what area of the city you're in because that's kind of creepy to do online, but it sounds like those are valid complaints. Would love to know specifics if you'd like to share, but if library is at capacity for example, seems bad
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr We haven’t seen a community centre or library in decades. There are proposals to take parkland for high density housing. Our roads are crumbling. Transit is a disaster. Electric and sewers are still remnants of 1970s. Biz corridors are losing tenants.
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr Where are the kids coming from across every school in the city, even new communities, with capacity problems? It's like there's been an under investment in education for 4 years while a campaign for people to move to Alberta has been happening...
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@CNiperL @KybrdWrrr It’s evident that they can’t without significant capital outlay. Which is a cost. As to “blaming it on density” goes, where else are these kids coming from?
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr And worth noting that rents and house prices are down across the board, after our record year of built housing. Affordability doesn't materialize instantly, and this council wants to remove these measures before the pie is hot.
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@JCraig_Miles @KybrdWrrr I dunno man, lots of inner city communities feel like they've had a decent amount of work done, especially recently, to modernize streets and services. I'm not sure it's perfect, but it feels weird to say it isn't happening at all.
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