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Originally Posted by MarchHare
This is why I'm completely unconvinced by the argument that people "need" a backyard for their kids, given the size of most yards in suburban Calgary. You could make that argument if you were talking about backyards similar to the one shown in my image of suburban Saint John (which is precisely why my parents moved to the suburbs when my sister and I were kids), but zoning residential lots of that size is completely unsustainable in a large metropolitan area.
The typical Calgary backyard isn't big enough to accomodate play for children older than say, 4 or 5 years. After that, they need to go to the community park/schoolyard anyway. It's absolutely true that kids need space to play, but the only spaces large enough in Calgary are found in community parks, whether the parks are in the suburbs or in the core.
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Agreed. And us living in Calgary have luxuries of big, beautiful parks at our slightest disposal: Prince's Island Park, Confederation Park, Fish Creek Park, Bowness, Nose Hill... not to mention the schools that usually have BIG schoolyards as well (for example, my high school that I went to, Queen Elizabeth, has a MASSIVE schoolyard... and that school is in the inner core).
People should be using these facilities; they're big, beautiful and best of all, free. No hundreds of thousands of dollars needed for personal investment here.