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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
Most of the time when people say something else is stupid ....
It's not a penalty, it is to have the small number of people who use the expensive infrastructure pay for it. The price of gasoline is totally irrelevant.
And yes to a degree the market decides things, but if left on it's own the market would chew off its own head if it knew it would make $5. The market should decide things like the value of a commodity but if left on it's own the 'market' would completely screw up a city. Careful thought needs to go into zoning and public expenditures.
As for arts, I would mean a very general meaning I guess. maybe shoved in their face is the wrong way to say it, but the reserves in Northern Alberta are going to bring people from all over the world to Calgary, and even though it's growing, Calgary still feels like a simple small prairie town. I know many people are proud of that, but people moving here will have expectations about large cities that in ways Calgary cannot provide right now.
Anyway thanks for the value add, anyone can criticize, what would you do?
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I don't think there is anything wrong with Calgary...it has the same issues as every other city in the world has but on a different scale, whether is be higher or lower....Calgary is kind of a special case, it is a city that can experience unpresented growth from month to month...and it takes time and money to built infrastructure to support it...
As far as taxes go...my opinion is that they don't solve anything, but take for example the Luciaks, they have lived in Lake Bonivista for over 30 years...when they bought their house there wasn't anything unusual in doing so, there was no pro-density thanks to enviromental concerns fear mongering around, if anything they were living in the era where people moved further and further away thanks to cool modern day inventions like rapid transit and the automobile...so now we should tell them well you decision was wrong....so you pay more taxes....and less than someone who is doing everything "right" based on today's "fear".
Ways to improve the city - i don't disagree with anything (except taxes part), selfishly here are the things i would add.
1. New hockey arena
2. diff a move on the east side redevelopment and stampede park (pick up the progress)
3. Need more parks in little vancouver (west end)
Calgary is a great city, and if you have never lived anywhere else sometimes you don't see it...