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Originally Posted by Bingo
To me the PR thing was lost early with an assumption of the Edmonton model.
I've said 100 times that it was a logical thing to ask for, but they didn't explain it correctly. For that they have King to blame for glib remarks but themselves to blame for not having a better strategy and/or expectation for what was coming from the city and the public.
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Well...
https://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpo...&postcount=888
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Originally Posted by frinkprof
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Also, what we know about the timeline (roughly) is:
- CSEC starts to get serious about their vision and has a few meetings with City officials and the mayor. They are told West Village is a bad idea, based on the above, and that the City would be hesitant to support it, at best.
- CSEC goes ahead with West Village vision anyway, meanwhile mayor and coucilors put out not so subtle hints that there is no appetite for the Edmonton deal.
- CSEC holds a bad public presentation about their ill-advised West Village vision before submitting anything formal to the City in terms of either a land use application, development permit or business proposition.
The presentation is CSEC trying to jump past any formal engagement about the specific project with the City to try to garner emotional support from the populace. That's playing politics.
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So if they didn't know what was coming from city hall they're just lying (or at best they're just incompetent) and if they didn't know what was coming from the public they are indeed out of touch with the city.