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Originally Posted by kermitology
Check out the zoning map: http://www.calgary.ca/PDA/DBA/Pages/...aw-1P2007.aspx
All of West Hillhurst is RC-2, and appears to be 95% infilled. Meaning that most of the infrastructure has been upgraded. The city requires you to upgrade the section of sewer, electric, gas, etc when you redevelop. In areas like Renfrew (where I built) it wasn't as bad as it is in areas like Inglewood and Bridgeland, it's piecemeal and it paid upfront, but it does get upgraded.
As for general use infrastructure like schools, I'd love it if we could have more funding put into our schools in the inner city. There are two elementary and one Jr. High school in Renfrew, but the two elementary are special use (girls academy and special needs) so something is going to have to change there soon.
Changes to zoning will be fought against tooth and nail by community associations. I'm not looking forward to that fight. |
That the vast swath of inner city Calgary is zoned R2 for infill is actually really interesting and progressive. The unit density of inner city will close to double over a couple of generations. The 50' original housing stock isn't very good, so it's actually a very good thing that we can refresh the housing stock with a higher quality, higher density product. Very few cities have this same situation.
The growth plan for this city is rather simple and logical.
Build at very, very high density in the core, concentrate high density and mixed use in immediate adjacency to major transit, sensitively intensify general inner city communities, take advantage of growth opportunities (such as derelict strip malls in established suburbs), evolve the design and mix of new communities (to be more walkable and transit-friendly for instance) and (hopefully) allow secondary suites everywhere.