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Originally Posted by Bigtime
These are some very good stats to look at, density is coming to those communities long considered the core of the inner-city. However the residents there are putting up just as much of a fight as the suburbs they so often love to hate on. Ultimately there is not much they can do as a lot of the rezoning pretty much allows these larger infills and mini-apartment style developments.
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That's only true in some areas where an ARP (area redevelopment plan) has already occured, and occured recently.
For example, the Hounsfield Heights Briar Hill ARP is older and has one of it's main goals as "retaining the single family character of the neighbourhood." So all the (large) lots are zoned RC-1. This is a neighbourhood south of 16th Ave NW and adjacent to a train station. The fact that it's zoned like that, very low density, and controlled by nimby's is an outrage. They have a huge amount of city infrastructure (ctrain, library, etc) and only a few people living there.
So that neighbourhood is hating on redevelopment and winning, and is so low density that other areas are subsidizing it. That's just one example, of course, but it's a systemic problem. The video I mentioned above also indicates an ARP takes 2+ years compared to 1.5 years for a new neighbourhood, because people are always objecting to change.
Zoning map found here:
http://www.calgary.ca/PDA/DBA/Docume...f?noredirect=1