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Originally Posted by Rhettzky
A new mayor with no experience in the inner workings at the city would have a pretty steep learning curve. It's not like they can come into the role and start making wholesale changes. Someone that understands the system the way it stands now would have much more opportunity to cut the fat. The city is very complex and not as easy to change as you might think when you take into account the union environment.
And I'm not trying to say that I'm voting for Ric here but I could easily see a candidate like Higgins get bogged down in the process and become irrelevant if in the mayors chair.
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Absolutely. Worth noting too that the city budget gets passed 3 weeks after the election. There's not a lot of time to get up to speed.
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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I think the real issue in this suburban vs. urban arguement is that in a perfect world Calgary never would have annexed communities as it spread outwards and then a central area with about 400,000 people in it would be the city of Calgary and the rest would be different suburban cities. Right now what happens is that the suburban vote outnumbers the urban vote and thus suburban issues get funded while being subsidized in some ways by the urbanites.
In that scenario each suburban city would pay their frieght of development while at the same time could allow the continuation of building massive homes with backyards as per demand. The urban based city of Calgary residents can continue to try and build a Vancouver-resembling inner-city without letting their choices be diluted by the suburban vote.
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I think the inner city should separate. Who's with me?
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Originally Posted by Muta
Related to your point, I can also say that there will be more grocery stores downtown in the near future. I know of one area that's definitely getting one.
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Yeah. A lot of the inner city's population growth has been fairly recent. Even if some areas are underserved, they won't stay underserved forever. Vacuums in the market tend to get filled when demand is there.