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Originally Posted by boogerz
Source for the bolded text? It is most assuredly more cost effective to upgrade utilities and infrastructure, including municipal services like police/medical/fire, for high density in an existing area like East Village that takes up ~0.5 square kilometers of land
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I doubt it is for utilities, not when it's costing hundreds of millions of dollars just to find and relocate utilities for the Green Line in the downtown. Any time you need to touch them in the core is going to be brutally expensive.
And while it's a smaller area, that's countered by slower travel times and higher incidents per capita.The Calgary crime map shows 1135 policing incidents in the East Village vs 500 for Mahogany, or 1113 for fully built out McKenzie Towne.
https://data.calgary.ca/Health-and-S...-Map/n24v-9r86
And for fire, the downtown/beltline has three (albeit smallish) fire stations to serve it. New neighborhoods rely on stations in nearby older neighborhoods.
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Originally Posted by Leondros
Are you associated or employed by one of the big builders in town or suppliers? Just curious if you have a bias here.
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I'm not in the industry at all, but have a personal curiosity and interest in these areas.