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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
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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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Good post, though these points have all been raised numerous times in this thread including by the guy who worked on this file for the City.
Why do we keep needing to bring this up to argue against points that have been thoroughly debunked?
Has GioforPM seriously not heard your argument before? I find that hard to believe.
It's almost as if some posters are disingenuously arguing to muddy the base of facts around this issue.
I'm reminded of that saying that the amount of effort to disprove bullshot is an order of magnitude greater than the effort it takes to create it.