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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
At least I'm consistent, eh
Are you sure your understanding of history has come from reliable narrators?
Developers failing to follow through on the grand visions they present is not a unique problem. It's up to councils and planning depts to include teeth in their codes and approval proccesses.
As for the outsiders, I've already mentioned that Spring Creek is an inside job. That's gotta the most central big development by far.
Do you have any ideas how things could be better? Maybe some sort of fairly aggressive vacancy tax? Everyone has to report to a checkpoint and show their papers every other Wednesday? (I'm only half joking)
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So the "outsiders" I meant were developers. Council was well known to be on the take from developers at the time, so their wasn't protection from them.
I'm not against development or expansion. One of the big problems is it is a small valley, and they gave so much of it to golf courses that serve so few. Does Silvertip paying anything close to the amount of taxes that could be generated by housing? I don't have the numbers, but I highly doubt it. So that's one issue, misuse of land. Banff has a need to reside clause, and while I don't think Canmore needs to go there, I do think they need a much better balance of homes vs second homes. At this point it's all ####ed so I don't really have any hope anything will get better, and Canmore will continue to see what made it so great erode away, at least for those who care about those things. But there were many points in the past far better decisions could have been made. All water under the bridge now.