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Originally Posted by Sliver
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What is stopping increased supply of houses? Well, in Canmore specifically, NIMBYs. Fuzz - a great guy, I think we'd all agree - has a very typical Canmore attitude. 'It was better when it was just me and mine there, and now everyone has ruined it.' Sorry, but that's everywhere that isn't on a Biff-Tannen Back to the Future II downward death spiral. If you aren't progressing as town/city, you are regressing. Plus, not sure about the rest of you, but I thought Canmore was pretty ####ty from a tourist/vacation area perspective in the 80s and early 90s. Like, there's a reason we all drove right past it and went to Banff. Canmore sucked. Now it's rad and things are more expensive.
Is housing tight in Canmore? Yes, because it is now a vacation destination. In vacation towns - every single one of them - real estate is expensive and living conditions for lower-wage inhabitants adapts. When I lived in Lake Louise there were seven of us in a two-bathroom unit, sharing bedrooms and it was smaller than my current vacation home. That's vacation-town living for the service industry and low earners. Works fine for the transient population that's in for a couple years and then back to Australia or wherever.
What about the middle class permanent Canmore residents? The people working for the town, the foreman at a landscaping company, the teacher...they should be able to live, too, and have a home, right? Did I scoop out a home from underneath them? No, in spite of what a typical Canmore person will tell you. Build more. I support that. They don't.
And it always goes back to this for me: if you think Canmore is too crowded then move out. I don't think it's too crowded. I like Canmore in 2023 a billion times more than Canmore in 1993. I wouldn't want to spend my time there in 1993. I would love to live there full time in 2023. If you think it's too crowded, then move away and STFU. What gives you the right to dictate how Canmore should be and what it should be? Because you called dibs? Because you were here first? I'm at three years with property there - some people have lived there less time than me. Should my voice be louder than theirs because of that? Fk that. Nobody is above anybody and Canmore locals should stop fkn acting like they're in a different class with more valuable input than me. It's NIMBYism, it's selfishness, it's gatekeeping and it's rude.
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Just a couple quick points here. You thought Canmore sucked in the early 90's, but the Canmore of that day was what residents loved. Canmore wasn't Banff, it was a point of pride for many.Does that help you understand why they resist turning their home into what they tried to avoid?
As for telling the residents to STFU and deal with it, I think that's kind of bull####. The residents are who built the Bow Valley for you. They are the ones who established a community, took care of the ski hills, kept Banff running, and build a town where people knew each other and cared about it. And you are gleefully tearing that down, to create a town where nobody knows each other, or cares about anything, really. Their input is more valuable than theirs, because they live in it every day and continue to contribute tot he community, whereas weekenders show up, use whatever they want, and leave. The day to day of running the town is irrelevant to them. It is not to residents. This might be obvious, given that vast majority of residents oppose this expansion. Maybe instead of lashing out at them, you could try to understand it from their perspective?