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Originally Posted by calculoso
Love how this thread has started with all of the inner-city dwelling people hating sprawl. Typical.
While there does need to be more development in the inner city - ie: tearing down old houses and building in-fills - there is a reason why new communities are being built on the outskirts of town... PEOPLE WANT THEM! Refusing to build more will just drive people to live in Cochrane, Airdrie, Okotoks, Chestermere, etc and further the problem. In order to sustain business growth, that manpower will still be needed, but the residential taxes will no longer be collected as they aren't living in the city.
Unless this is going to turn into a new GCA (Greater Calgary Area), there are going to be lots more problems generated by these 'solutions'.
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Agree 100%. No city council can dictate where people should live. You have to build where the demand is. If people can't get houses here then Okotoks and Airdrie it is. If there is a house shortage then that's what needs to be built.
I'm all for the East Village and think the plan looks really good but how is council going to get people to buy condo's there when there are so many vacant condo's already.
Someone said it before; it's like trying to make America skinny by just making skinny people clothes.
I'll vote for infrastructure and satisfying demand.