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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
CalgaryNEXT was dead the second they put out a presentation a fifth grader would be humiliated by, not because of Nenshi's agenda. You have like 70% of Flames fans on this board who wanted no part of it. When 70% of the core support you should be able to rely on hates your idea...
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Not the way I see it. I have no doubt that "70%" of the Flames fans on this board have issue with one part of the project or another, and so are against it overall because they want something different. To say that they want NO part of it is probably embellishment.
The project they put out had many potential snags (from the tax, to the location, to the cleanup, to having a football stadium with a roof, etc) and everyone has attached themselves to their personal issue.
I think if the issue were genuinely looked at from City Hall, maybe jointly some could have been worked through.
Am I saying CalgaryNext was the best thing they could have come up with? No - but I am saying that an open-minded city hall would have benefited the process. That's not something I'm convinced we have, and I attribute that primarily to Nenshi.