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Originally Posted by Torture
Hmm, do we build houses and neighbourhoods for people, or for cars?
I say this as someone that lives in an infill, in the inner city, near where the green line will someday maybe be built if the provincial government ever agrees to fund it. I have a garage and 90% of my neighbours do too. And yet any time somebody wants to develop something everyone's concerned about parking spaces for the cars.  |
We build neighborhoods for people. However, as you know, Calgary is a very car oriented place (we like to drive), and many families have a multiple number of cars. If you cut the living area in half you decrease the available parking area per car.
If you have ever experienced a neighborhood, where they started allowing infills, it's a given that the street will be, from thereon, lined with vehicles along the front of the infills.
I wish I had the photos to show you, but at the end of our street they allowed just two infills on a 50 ft lot, and the parking changed the moment they started building, and has continued long after the infills were completed. It has negatively changed the entrance to our street. You now have to be much more careful when passing other cars.