Real estate in Calgary - another bubble?

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by Knut

Make my home look like a Squished Haunted House please.

Its worse in real life. The photos don't do it justice.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

So more new communities on the edge, and growth to communities even farther out?

Literally the opposite of what I want.

I mean, at least these towers aren't going in friggin' Shawnessy or something. But I'd still rather they be closer to the core. I don't believe for a minute that the vast majority of the people living in those towers aren't going to be car commuters, just because of where in the city they're situated.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by fotze2

You guys got to drive by this abortion of an infill. Bizarre zoning. Clearly some old legacy approval but the house on the left is bizarrely set back has a garage behind the new one somehow.

https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/2...lgary-richmond

the realtor knows its an abortion and has photoshopped the houses out that are 4 inches on either side.

I don't know if I want to live in it or get fataed by it.

The image is a rendering, so I guess that makes more sense. It looks like a 50" lot divided in 2 by the guy on the left, who also built the garage at the same time.


https://goo.gl/maps/vTtSAey8kfpVQB5s9


Bizarre stuff going on back there. The construction looks...bad, with the OSB painted fascia on the garage and things just not looking right no the house. Added bonus of the neighbour's downspout.

[the-rasta-masta]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

There have been dozens and maybe even more of these built recently. Builders repeat build these designs by John Trinh and slightly change a finish or two.

I've even seen an application where they submitted the previous lot's plans from a few blocks over and just crossed out the old address. Not a single change.

Imagine owning a new infill home and driving down the street past the exact same thing.

Unless you're going custom hasn't this always been the case? My childhood home in Edgemont had 3 other houses of the same design (and even the same paint and stucco colour combination) within a few streets radius. The home I just sold in Valley Ridge had the same design and layout in several homes across the community.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Literally the opposite of what I want.

I mean, at least these towers aren't going in friggin' Shawnessy or something. But I'd still rather they be closer to the core. I don't believe for a minute that the vast majority of the people living in those towers aren't going to be car commuters, just because of where in the city they're situated.

Do you think people who bought condos in Seton are more likely to commute downtown, or work in and around the area, like the hospital?


I'd suspect most people buying these ones will work at Rockyview or nearby.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Literally the opposite of what I want.

I mean, at least these towers aren't going in friggin' Shawnessy or something. But I'd still rather they be closer to the core. I don't believe for a minute that the vast majority of the people living in those towers aren't going to be car commuters, just because of where in the city they're situated.

Not everyone that doesn't live in the core needs to commute to the core. You need to densify more inner rings of the city too and provide diversified options. 80% population in multi-family in the central core and 20% in single family spread across the rest of the region isn't realistic.

[Matata]

Originally Posted by blankall

Calgary desperately needs a bunch of semi-self contained communities spread throughout the city. Putting density and commercial space only in the core and having the rest be suburbia is a logistics nightmare. Calgary's population is only going to grow. Any and all kind of development in close proximity to transit should be heavily encouraged.

Calgary's urban design mandate shifted to TOD (Transit Oriented Design) ~10-20 years ago. TOD focuses on creating high density clusters around transit stations. It's the only realistic option for densification in calgary.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Do you think people who bought condos in Seton are more likely to commute downtown, or work in and around the area, like the hospital?


I'd suspect most people buying these ones will work at Rockyview or nearby.

It's about 3000 people. How many people can possibly work at the Glenmore Landing McDonalds?

[TorqueDog]

^lol.

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Do you think people who bought condos in Seton are more likely to commute downtown, or work in and around the area, like the hospital?

Yes. As in, both. At this point, people are buying what they can afford, which isn't much, but it gets more feasible the further out of the inner city you go.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

The image is a rendering, so I guess that makes more sense. It looks like a 50" lot divided in 2 by the guy on the left, who also built the garage at the same time.


https://goo.gl/maps/vTtSAey8kfpVQB5s9


Bizarre stuff going on back there. The construction looks...bad, with the OSB painted fascia on the garage and things just not looking right no the house. Added bonus of the neighbour's downspout.

I've never seen someone use their neighbor's property for their downspout like that. It's better for both properties to have it like that though so the water doesn't pool between the houses.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Slava

It's about 3000 people. How many people can possibly work at the Glenmore Landing McDonalds?

If you were aiming for a disingenuous argument that ignores facts(even those in my post!) I don't think you could do a better job than that. You sure you aren't a politician?

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

If you were aiming for a disingenuous argument that ignores facts(even those in my post!) I don't think you could do a better job than that. You sure you aren't a politician?

Haha, well we've been over this in the other thread, and there's no need to discuss it here also. There's no way there's infrastructure for 3000 additional people there, but we'll just charge ahead anyway.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta

Unless you're going custom hasn't this always been the case? My childhood home in Edgemont had 3 other houses of the same design (and even the same paint and stucco colour combination) within a few streets radius. The home I just sold in Valley Ridge had the same design and layout in several homes across the community.

I suppose, it's just in that form it was new community mass production by a fixed number of builders. Each community had it's own era and aesthetic baked into its origin.

Now it's builders reusing plans and dropping the exact same house in Altadore, Parkdale, Capital Hill, West Hillhurst, Killarney, etc. These designs/plans also aren't builder specific as other builders are buying them from the designer.

[the-rasta-masta]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I've never seen someone use their neighbor's property for their downspout like that. It's better for both properties to have it like that though so the water doesn't pool between the houses.

From what I understood from some of the posts above, that garage behind the new home actually belongs to the next door home, so it's his own downspout on his own garage behind the new home's property. Very strange.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta

From what I understood from some of the posts above, that garage behind the new home actually belongs to the next door home, so it's his own downspout on his own garage behind the new home's property. Very strange.

So that house has 2 garages? How the hell did that get approved?

[you&me]

Originally Posted by Slava

Haha, well we've been over this in the other thread, and there's no need to discuss it here also. There's no way there's infrastructure for 3000 additional people there, but we'll just charge ahead anyway.

The city's current view is density beyond all, infrastructure capacity be damned.

Just wait for gridlock on 33rd in Marda Loop when the 18 story Co-op tower goes up.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta

From what I understood from some of the posts above, that garage behind the new home actually belongs to the next door home, so it's his own downspout on his own garage behind the new home's property. Very strange.

No, the downspout is a 3rd unrelated house. When I said "the left" I meant from the front. It looks like the garages were built at the same time, so just guessing, the guy owned the lot 50' lot, torn down the bungalow, subdivided, built his place on one half, and the second garage as well. Then later sold the empty lot with the garage included.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by blankall

The Properties in Pump Hill have always been set up to be as isolating as possible. Lots of large tress. Many on set back driveways.

Glenmore Landing itself is already a major eyesore. My great grandparents lived nearby there, and we would visit them in the 80/90s, and not much has changed in there since. Anything to get that place going is a positive.

Yeah, thats why thinking some towers there is going to be an eyesore is such a weird complaint. The only way you see them from a house in Pump Hill or even Haysboro is if you take a drone and fly it up really high.

[CaptainYooh]

Originally Posted by you&me

The city's current view is density beyond all, infrastructure capacity be damned.

Just wait for gridlock on 33rd in Marda Loop when the 18 story Co-op tower goes up.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by you&me

The city's current view is density beyond all, infrastructure capacity be damned.

Just wait for gridlock on 33rd in Marda Loop when the 18 story Co-op tower goes up.

Maybe they can make it a car free development? Traffic is already a nightmare and has been for a long time. We lived beside the South Calgary Community Centre and later at the north end of River Park about 15 years ago and 33rd was a disaster at that time. My mom lives just down the street from OJs so I'm still in the area a fair bit and there is no way that traffic flow can be improved. The intersections at 22 street and 33/34 Ave need to blown up redeveloped into something that can manage all the cars better.