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Originally Posted by SeoulFire
Would not get my vote. Why would I want to increase your property value and give you tax breaks?
I would, however, support the development of alternative business and entertainment hubs outside of the downtown core. I lived in a greater-metro area population of about 15,000,000 for 10 years and I loved the decentralized development.
Just say NO to a single core.
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I was in Singapore recently for work and they had what you are describing but it's also a city of 5+ MM people. Calgary at it's size needs to focus on downtown for now. The heart of a great citiy is downtown and our future city council needs to do a better job. Calgary needs to grow up, not out.
Right now people like Mata that live downtown have a lot of their taxes go towards suburban infrastructure due to short-sighted, ugly urban sprawl. Not fair to the inner city folks. If you promote and encourage inner city living and development you mitigae these problems. On top of that you probably make living in the core more affordable.