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Originally Posted by 81MC

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...lley-1.5351460
This should be a bigger deal I think.
It’s terrible to me that CC actually approved these in the first place, and the fact developers so blatantly have more clout than citizens of Calgary.

but there is the part at the end.

"I don't think that this council would have any intent, or there would be much appetite, in backing off on that," Woolley said, referencing the city's agreement to fund half of the $550-million Calgary Flames arena.
"But remember that the pie of money is a finite pie. And so for the $275 million that council has put in to build this new arena, that means other stuff isn't getting built."

agree urban sprawl is a huge issue.
but shouldn't people also complain that is such tight times Calgary committed 300 million to a new arena? and that money was committed after the UCP broadly telegraphed cuts were coming, unlike the developments.

I notice Woolley is supporting that spend.