[mykalberta]

I love it how people think that people vote for municipal politics like they would Provincially or Federally. It wasnt vote splitting that won the election, it was that the other 2 candidates were complete dead fish. The next election should prove this point to everyones satisfaction.

I think this stems from some of the changes the City is trying to get pushed through with differing tax rates for higher density buildings and the one time infrastructure fee for new homes and the home builders association thinks that will put a squeeze on their very lucrative cookie cutter suburban building plans.

The City and the builders have different goals. The Home Builders want to make money and dont really care what the economics of a City are how building down to the edge of Okotoks, Cochrane and Airdie has always been an economically un-sustainable effort with the current fees in place.

The difference is this time there is a Mayor who doesnt need the support of the largest lobby in the City to run for re-election. This scares the Home builders as they have no way to leverage and manipulate this mayor like they did the last one and other other 2 candidates that ran against in the last election.