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Originally Posted by timun
True, they don't have the grid pattern, and that makes redevelopment more difficult, but the problematic part is having this seemingly immutable covenant that says "these neighbourhoods shall always be very low-density, single-family homes." From an urban planning standpoint it's super dumb to have these neighbourhoods immediately adjacent to dense parts of our core. Scarboro is less of an issue because it kind of dead-ends at Crowchild Trail anyway, but Mount Royal covers a huge swath at the south end of the Beltline and is a barrier to making the neighbourhoods to the south and southwest of that—places like Altadore—more accessible to the core. Transit, for instance, would be a lot better for neighbourhoods like Altadore if Mount Royal was denser as it would justify more buses/shorter headways.
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I guess I just don't see the urgency in worrying about the covenants protecting these areas as SFHs while there is absolutely no shortage of other areas of the inner city that are already zoned for higher density while also being in a more appropriate grid layout.
Once we've exhausted those options, I'd argue there are more egregious wastes of inner city land than the homes in Mount Royal... such as the Stampede grounds. It's not like having SFH neighbourhoods close to the city centre is unique to "Sprawlgary".