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Originally Posted by bizaro86
This is a great plan, but I haven't seen much progress towards it. How many ARPs have happened under this council/mayor? The only one I recall is North Kelvin Grove, which had exactly zero intensification. And then of course there are the large amounts of R1 zoning directly adjacent to CTrain stations, which is just ridiculous.
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Yes - there's a big need to go through over the next several years and update most, if not all ARPs. There's a major initiative right now called Transforming Planning - the intent of which is to completely reform the current system. This will include the regulatory framework, process, potentially City structure and aim to improve the culture and relationships in the planning system. Part of that is completely changing what an ARP is (simplified structure, but also looking more broadly at mobility and infrastructure requirements to support redevelopment). This is the key regulatory tool that enables redevelopment and we have very few that actually serve that purpose now. One thing Rollin's Civic Camp presentation highlights is how to go about planning for redevelopment - i.e. focus in on that 25 or 30% of a community that might change - the commercial main street, underutilized commercial sites and essentially leave alone the rest which is already stable or already infilling residential.
Transforming Planning
http://www.calgary.ca/PDA/Pages/Tran...ormingplanning
This was something that the Mayor initiated - I did a lot of the leg work to set this project up, which strangely, hit the media a while back:
http://www2.canada.com/calgaryherald...f-47bec5649861