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Originally Posted by ken0042
I just went on Google Maps and counted 76 houses along 37th street. Are they saying that 6 rows of houses would have to go? That's over 200 metres wide.
Or were they counting the apartment complex right by Glenmore?
I think this is where some of the rest of us get off accusing people of being NIMBYs. We hear of 500 houses getting demolished, and kids being trotted out with signs saying "where will I play?" All designed to get people mad at the process.
Meanwhile we may be talking about under 100 houses; and by the time the project is done those kids will be more concerned about being able to afford a house that is close enough to commute home before their own kids have to go to bed.
I'm also a little jadded that in my own Copperfield I had to deal with our own NIMBYs for the SE leg; and said people didn't look at the plans before they bought their houses.
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I think the problem with just buying the houses directly adjacent to 37th St is that it doesn't create any room to make a corner onto Glenmore @ 37th. You have to cut into a community somewhere to get the radius required, even if you have a slower speed corner (unless you want a 30km/hr corner perhaps).
Take a look at the radius that the NE and SE stoney Trail are built with when they turn 90 degrees, and try to paste (in your mind) a road of that radius onto the intersection of glenmore/37th without having any part of the road in the reserve land. That would take up a huge chunk of houses somewhere.
I wasn't at the open houses, so I don't know which houses the province has in mind, exactly
Glenmore 37th from google maps.
NE Stoney Trail at the same zoom in google maps.