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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
not really, neither are a million and ottawa in particular isn't growing. I'm thinking world wide, not just Canada.
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You're nitpicking. Why do you find it hard to believe that there exists cities with a comparable population to Calgary that are less dense?
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No, nuking LB is not the only way to help with the problem. I haven't reread every post but I don't think anyone has suggested that we need to nuke neighbourhoods.
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Don Braid did an analysis of this very issue years ago. He came to the same conclusion - you could build the rest of Calgary like Hong Kong, and unless you did something about the older suburbs, that density simply can't be raised to anything worthwhile.
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Deal with what we have, but from here, build smart, and rightfit the tax structure so one area does not subsidize another.
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I won't even get into the tax structure. You cannot prove your assertion that the city center somehow subsidizes suburbs. Considering that the infrastructure downtown is ancient, and that those people in Mount Royal mysteriously keep getting new pavement every couple of years, I'd say it's the rich people in Mount Royal stealing all the money.
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Ironically I grew up on one of those big lots down there.
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And what you should realize is that one of those lots now houses three single family dwellings in new communities.