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Originally Posted by pylon
This seems like a very childish reaction by Nenshi. "How dare you disagree with my vision, so get out. And you better say you are super sorry, and bow down to me, your leader in a written apology before you are allowed to grace my committee again." And I was actually starting to like the guy. But this is the same BS cronyism of years past.
I really have to agree with a lot of what is said in the article posted by First Lady. Not everyone wants to live in Nenshi's version of a Hong Kong Calgary. Where we all live on top of each other. I am all for Urban Sprawl. We can keep expanding for decades. And big companies are starting to move out of the core to accommodate this. That is what makes Calgary great IMHO. I live in a condo now, because it is just me, and it is convenient...for now. But I am getting really tired of walking down a hallway, smelling cigarette smoke from one suite, someones massive crap that is wafting under the door of another, and some rancid cuisine from from unpronounceable island nation from the person next door. I also do not like having to listen to my whale of a next door neighbour getting stuffed like a thanksgiving turkey every second night. Some have a huge boner for that type of melting pot environment, and want to gather in the common area to sniff each others buttholes, and pick bugs out of their dreadlocks. But I pine for the day, I have an excuse to build a giant, energy hog house, with double insulated exterior walls, and a 10 foot fence, on a 1 acre lot so I don't have be forced to listen, see, smell, or interact with disgusting people I have nothing in common with, and no desire to get to know. Not everyone wants to live like a Sardine, and have a house 6 feet away from their neighbour.
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He did not take issue with a "disagreement with his vision" or him. It was misleading its memberships with statements they now have no basis in fact. CHBA members that contacted us, the ones that are in the know about what's going on at the City, expressed their discomfort with how Charron Ungar was expressing things. Participation in these engagement exercises comes with expectations, and they violated those expectations. They have every ability to rectify the situation.
The Mayor does not espouse a "Hong Kong Calgary" He supports sensitive intensification of established communities and continually improved new subdivisions in line with the City's (Council endorsed - pre-Nenshi) Municipal Development Plan. This is not a radical change to the city by any stretch of the imagination. The notion that is often put out there like Alderman Colley-Urquhart that "every has to live in a downtown condo" under the vision of the MDP is just not true.