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Originally Posted by D as in David
I'm fuzzy on the details but I believe it has to do with some long-ago caveat put on the land above and beyond RC-1 zoning. I'm not even 100% sure that this blanket re-zoning excludes Mt. Royal - someone with more specific knowledge could better answer this question.
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Originally Posted by you&me
I'm not sure of the specifics of Mt Royal, but lots of areas have restrictive covenants registered. As mentioned previously, these covenants supercede zoning by laws and will endure any changes to them... removal of a covenant is possible, but is also a long and expensive process, so typically people will avoid the hassle in favour of lower hanging fruit... Which will be most of the rest of the city under the proposed zoning changes.
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The rezoning map put out by the city for this blanket zoning indicates that all of Upper Mount Royal and Elbow Park will be moving from R-C1 to R-CG. They don't seem to be exempt.