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See that's where I completely disagree. Plan It seems to have a mandate to make the city another Toronto or another Vancouver. It, and those running it, doesn't seem to understand that a large portion of people who live here now come from Saskatchewan or other rural areas. They are being forced to move to "the big city" but choose Calgary because it doesn't have the "big city feel". It isn't building upon building stretching as high as the eye can see. It allows those people, who are used to having acres of land available to them, to have a sense of space while giving them none. Do you think that those people would move here to live in a 20 story apartment building? Hell no. They're making a huge sacrifice to move into a 1600 sq ft home with a back yard...and yet they're being crapped on for it. Screw that.
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You seem to have quite the mistaken notion of what exactly Plan It aims to accomplish. The big bad city isn't going to take away your nice suburban single family detached home. That option will still be there for people who want that lifestyle. Plan It is about increasing the amount of high-density housing near transit hubs and attempting to make communities more "walkable", reducing the necessity of driving just about everywhere.