Well the land right now is owned by Winsport, formerly known as the Calgary Olympic Development Association (CODA), a gov't backed NPO. The land was donated to that organization for a reason (Olympic Development) back before the '88 games.
This is hardly a case of a developer finally deciding to develop, its taking land no one expected to be developed into anything but sport/olympic related, and developing it.
I don't mountain bike or use the trails much, but I am a hippie when it comes to protecting urban green spaces. Things like this you can't get back when you realize 20 years down the road it was a bad idea to build another junky strip mall.
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