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Originally Posted by Cleveland Steam Whistle
The one thing I will say, with no idea what's going on with these proceedings, is our city, especially under this mayor is netoriously difficult to deal with. Probably going to be a lot of starting and stopping on this project, and given the Flames are the only ones with any motivation to communicate on this project (and rightfully so, they want the rink the most) it will be them delivering the messages.
I guess you could say it's their own fault for how early they communicated, but I'm not going to critique them looping in their fans on their high level plans. I also don't envy them having to work past this cities very archauque way of doing business on a project this large.
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Nope, Calgary has a (justified) reputation of being extremely developer friendly. The zoning restrictions are limited, code is light, heritage preservation is non-existent, the city typically covers the cost of any related infrastructure and almost any derogation is negotiable. This project's failure to progress cannot be faulted on the city.
The Flames on the other hand developed a high risk concept in isolation and tried to engage the City at the same time as the public. If they had any idea what they were doing, they would have developed numerous concepts in collaboration with the city in order to determine what was an wasn't feasible, then engaged the public once a concept was more realistic.
if King did this in isolation, he deserves the axe. If not, his yes men also deserve the axe. Oiler level management...embarrassing.