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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I don't think 2012 stats alone are the correct ones to look at in the context of this debate. The housing starts that are occurring now are in development plans that were completed and approved long before Nenshi's and Stanley's time. Rather contrast those stats with what the planning department is up to these days and Stanley's comments that 'maybe only 2 plans actually get started in the next 10 years' and it becomes obvious why an industry that's made a lot of money on slapping up single family homes in record time is having a cow.
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I can't speak for Rollin Stanley, but from my conversations with him, the "maybe only 2 plans actually get started in 10 years" stems from a conversation before Christmas when developers were lobbying to get the next 7 Area Structure Plans written and approved within 2 years, whereby the City had proposed to do them over 6 years. The City has a policy around "planned land supply" of 15 years. Recently approved ASPs (Keystone - 2500 acres + others) brought us to well over that 15 year supply. Rollin, from my understanding, was making the point that of these 7 new ones, likely only 2 of them are likely to get actual development started, because there's already a lot of other planned areas ahead of them in the queue. Not that the City would stop writing ASPs, or would not process applications within ASP areas.
As Rollin Stanley states in that article posted earlier, the City continues that policy and applications continue to be processed under the rubric of the Growth Management Framework.
I'm not sure if they're misinterpreting those statements, but the CHBA knows full well there is no development freeze. They and UDI sign off on the absorption and land supply data that the City uses to measure against its land supply policy!