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Happy birthday R-CG! (1 of 22) #unsprawling #moreneighbourscalgary
Should it be seen as normal to exclude all housing types except one, or should it be normal to allow for a healthy mix?
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Unsprawling
@unsprawling
Exploring Calgary's built environment and how we get around it.
Calgary Katılım Mayıs 2024
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Spent the day out in two of Calgary’s best-loved communities — first cheering on participants at Run Bowness with Ward 1 candidate @kim_tyers, then strolling 4th Street at @lilacfest with Ward 8 candidate @CorneliaWiebe. 💙 #yyc
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Happy birthday R-CG! (FINALE) #unsprawling @YYCNeighbours
The most important thing about R-CG is... it's quite boring. Lots to lose long-term from rejection, not much to gain short-term.
Rezoning citywide means spreading the benefits wide, and the impacts thin.
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Happy birthday R-CG! (21 of 22) #unsprawling @YYCNeighbours
Redevelopment is the only way to create opportunities for families in existing places. Nostalgia and fear may be persuasive, but it's failing our city and its people.
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Happy birthday R-CG! (1 of 22) #unsprawling #moreneighbourscalgary
Should it be seen as normal to exclude all housing types except one, or should it be normal to allow for a healthy mix?
#yyc #yyccc #urbanism
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Happy birthday R-CG! (18 of 22) #unsprawling @YYCNeighbours
Many Councillors love to push the blame, or point towards the problems that "quilt zoning" might aggravate.
So, should we make those problems better, and enable improvement, or are they just excuses?
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Happy birthday R-CG! (17 of 22) #unsprawling
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R-C1 has caused students and young professionals to cram into overcrowded, and precarious living conditions. This too, makes it difficult for families to find the housing they need to form!
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@cognitivecurio @tony_imbrogno To those that did show up, thank you! However, one issue was clearly sexier between the two.
We're a billion dollars behind our spending-per-person from just a few years ago because of relentless sprawl. We heard that precisely 0 times from the anti-development councillors.
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@tony_imbrogno Seems they didn’t notice all the noise the same people made about the budget during budget deliberation time. Myopia.
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Can someone help me translate astroturfer?
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@tony_imbrogno I seem to find the folks most passionate about land-use hearings silent when it's time to decide the budget. When the development complaining session is over, everyone leaves the CA building. I hope we can help more folks stay to do the boring work of actually fixing stuff.
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So happy to see the incredible work of folks at @SustainableYYC come together on this project.
Protected and fun spaces near schools make community safer and more livable.
Way to go, team!
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Student-influenced pop-up park next to Connaught School made permanent #yyc #yyccc calgaryherald.com/news/connaught…
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Spoke at public hearing I support of the west elbow communities plan!
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@tony_imbrogno Parking, traffic, infrastructure, amenities... we've said it before.
These are all issues that folks complaining about development are rightfully bringing up.
It's a shame that our Council, and the complainers, neglect these issues once the housing pinata is down.
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@unsprawling Changing the topic is odd. Are you able just to say what you mean or is obfuscation all you know?
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@tony_imbrogno I seem to find the folks most passionate about land-use hearings silent when it's time to decide the budget.
When the development complaining session is over, everyone leaves the CA building.
I hope we can help more folks stay to do the boring work of actually fixing stuff.
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@unsprawling I enjoy exposing the hollow nonsense behind your "advovacy". Going before Council is a right. Fix the process, don't abolish, but abolishing hands control over. Pathetic.
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@tony_imbrogno I just wonder what exactly comes up in the land-use approvals process that heals any of the concerns that folks have with their neighbourhoods.
It's typically things that are outside the gamut of a land-use decision. A lack of information or credibility around adjacent issues.
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@unsprawling It isn't, but let's agree that one type of housing forever doesn't work. I don't get the leap from that to enabling chaotic process. You and other pro rezoners have drastically politicized the issue. I said before I give thanks for that since it mobilized people.
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Happy birthday R-CG! (15 of 22) #unsprawling @YYCNeighbours
Folks are right to express concern over even a handful of new residents. Decades of R-C1 has created fragile communities. We need a credible, proactive City gov't to ensure R-CG is supported.
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@tony_imbrogno Of course we denounce bad planning practices, ergo, allowing an exclusive R-1 zone to run rampant into the prairies for several decades.
Rezoning for Housing is exactly the flexible low-density by-right that starts to solve the deficit that has created.
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@unsprawling So no to blanket rezoning, have planning documents respect neighbourhoods, place density reasonably, and upgrade infrastructure.
I look forward to your denouncement of bad planning practices and of blanket rezoning. This has been enlightening and productive.
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@tony_imbrogno Sure, if you mean flexible low-density forms by-right everywhere, so that the benefits of land value uplift are shared among homeowners instead of pocketed by developers.
Perhaps density floors around transit such that high land values are split into enough pieces.
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@unsprawling Sounds like you're for planning that develops respectfully in communities rather than half baked blanket up/rezoning that doesn't work with neighbourhoods. Very good.
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Happy birthday R-CG! (14 of 22) #unsprawling @YYCNeighbours
In a healthy display of democracy, not every activist is expected to bring a research paper with them, sometimes all you need is the basics! Just make your experience and your voice heard.
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@tony_imbrogno The problem with Vancouver is the targeted upzoning of only their Downtown and areas next to transit.
It's great at encouraging speculation, and bad at delivering the sort of widely spread flexibility and gradual growth that keeps neighbourhoods affordable.
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@unsprawling I mean, answer his question why don't you
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If adding new housing to existing neighbourhoods lowered prices why is Vancouver's housing the most expensive in North America. No center city has added more housing. docs.google.com/document/d/1lQ…
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Happy birthday R-CG! (13 of 22) #unsprawling @YYCNeighbours
There's nothing wrong with single-detached homes themselves, the problem comes from the blanket restriction on all other housing types, creating exclusivity, and spreading across more land.
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