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Originally Posted by accord1999
Isn't that mostly the South Health Campus; which is a benefit to Seton but is also meant to serve Calgary's SE and far south and hundreds of thousands of Calgarians and Albertans. And if Seton ends up like its neighbors and most new neighborhoods, it'll probably end up at around 16-18K residents.
In addition to the $400+ million solely on infrastructure to make the EV livable, you also have the large investments like the library, the NMC and the major capital projects nearby. Plus, thanks to the massive budget overrun of the Green Line, especially the downtown section, the first phase will end up only helpful to some inner city residents and practically useless to most suburban commuters.
Clearly, the inner city is getting significant investment from the City, but it sure seems like supporters of that area won't be happy until they get all of the City's investments.
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You've undershot the population target for East Village by a substantial amount. The planned build-out of East Village is supposed to support 13-14k permanent residents, not just 10-11k.
Naturally, people aren't going to be happy until the full East Village area is built-out because East Village isn't the same as a far flung suburb like Seton. It's supposed to support 5-10x its permanent population by way of it being a central gathering area for all Calgarians. Imagine if the city finished East Village, but didn't tie it into existing surrounding public works and communities like Riverwalk, St. Patrick's Island, and Inglewood...that would be a textbook example of incredibly bad urban design.
Also, a lot people overlook the scale of East Village. The city is essentially building a new community that's the same size as Douglasdale or Huntington Hills in a tiny
eight-block land area. Of course the costs are going to look eye popping, but infrastructure isn't cheap and that's the point of high-density development...it's significantly easier to get a ton of bang for our buck with $400M of infrastructure spending (and more) across such a small area.