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The city has planned (still a long way out), to do a CRL for west village, similar to what it's successfully doing in the East village. The city doesn't want to compete against itself by starting west village before east village is built out, or very close.
There is a significant amount of land in west village. Plenty enough to pay for land remediation and other necessary infrastructure upgrades.
The CalgaryNEXT proposal cannot possibly work as a CRL, because it itself adds a huge cost to the CRL loan, and mostly because it takes up nearly all the most desirable land that could be developed to pay back the loan. The only way the CRL would have even the slightest remote possibility of working would be to add a large chunk of sunalta into the CRL area, but the problem with that is that that area is already built out - meaning that it redevelops much slower than bare land.
The CalgaryNEXT proposal was not merely unpalatable to the city - it was 100% completely impossible. CSEC should have known this, and would have, had they involved the city in planning CalgaryNEXT, even in the smallest amount.
There is only two possible scenarios. Either CSEC honestly didn't know, or they did know - and tried to hide that in order to try to deceive supporters. Ken King is the head of CSEC, and should have been fired the day they released the CalgaryNEXT proposal, either for being completely incompetent, or for being a con-man.
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