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A couple of things bug me from the FCC2 development permit.

From the Urban Design Review Panel:

"The Panel notes the importance of this development to fill up an on grade parking lot in downtown and feels that overall the project will positively contribute to the improvements along the 7th Avenue LRT corridor and 2nd Street SW, by strengthening the vibrancy, mixed uses and urban nature of the City Centre."

If there's an on grade parking lot there, it must be really small! The plans are too blurry to read exactly, but Google Map shows three cars that might lose their parking spots if this goes ahead. Most of the site is a park.

And speaking of that park, here's the Calgary Downtown Association:

"The removal of the existing park is welcomed, as this area has provided a place for many social behaviour issues to take place."

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.