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Originally Posted by Table 5
oh please, now your just reaching.
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Am I? I'm assuming that you like them because they are different. How many different designs are there possible? If the city was full of these kind of neighborhoods, how different would these be?
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Originally Posted by Table 5
Calgary is one of the least green cities in Canada when it comes to trees, so Im not quite sure what you're talking about. Virtually every tree in this city was planted (take a look at old shots of Mount Royal, it was practically prairie). Besides, all the great green spaces are in already developed communities, no?
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Of course there aren't the natural trees around. We're in the prairie. News to me that only trees are green.
There are lots of green spaces around - lots of GRASS. The parks, the back yards, etc, They're all green. There is lots of green in Calgary.
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Originally Posted by Table 5
And don't play dumb, I wasn't suggesting we go develop Fish Creek Park (or anything even resembling a park). There are tons of concrete parking lots and wasteland out there that are begging to be developed.
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Sure there are lots of parking lots. People need places to park.
I just don't understand the planning of our Downtown right now. Across from Stampede Park, they're doing exactly what you are proposing. They're building high rise apartments/condos where a former parking lot existed.
What there does not appear to be a plan for... where are all those people and those that used to park in that lot going to park now? There's a reason why it was a parking lot to start with. Unless a huge parkade is going to be built (fat chance of that), it's just increasing the huge downtown parking issue.
Putting words in your mouth: You want higher density with more green space (sorry.. tree space), and designed around public transit.
On the surface they appear fine, but until the public transit is there, it isn't possible to take away the parking that we have. If not taking away the parking, it has to be green spaces that are taken away.
Take Garrison Woods as an example. In the picture above, there is lots of green space... and medium density condos/townhouses. The same space with that could house the same number of people, each with their own house and yard. Same end result, different building concept. How is that helping anything? Because it looks different? Because we can later build more medium density condos/townhouses where that green space was before?
I don't get your point apparently.