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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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It's typical of people that have educated themselves a bit on urban planning. Unless you want to end up like the US one day with completely decayed inner city areas all of the country that may be torn down completely (
http://www.businessinsider.com/will-...-cities-2009-6), we need to start making changes before it's too late. Sustainable Development is a buzz phrase tossed out a little too often for some, but the truth is the way we are developing right now is NOT sustainable. Live 2 hours away from work, I don't care, just pay for the infrastructure you use.
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Originally Posted by stampsx2
Haven't heard of Stoney Trail huh?
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What?
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Don't most of the subdivisions pay for themselves?
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No. That's the huge gripe. If they did, the prices would be much higher and moving to the edge of the city wouldn't be so attractive. Right now the only negative is travel time. With our road happy city council, traffic really isn't that bad for a city of our footprint, so people will continue flooding to the edges. You hit a point however where there isn't enough tax revenue to support all of this infrastructure to low density areas, as the US is having happen now.
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=2131042&page=1