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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Right, but if the people of Banff had their way, Banff would have never turned into a thing that would support a bedroom community such as Canmore. So basically, hyper-tourism in the mountains made Canmore avoid being a dead town either way.
As you mentioned, now Canmore is a bedroom community for Cochrane. Is it fair that Banff arbitrarily goes to hell by local's standards in order for Canmore to survive, but Canmore is where the buck stops?
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I'm not so sure of the first bit, Banff was, from it's founding, a tourist town. People have always known that. The limitation on growth was I think a good move for Banff in general, and I think that's mostly accepted.
Just a correction, Cochrane is becoming a bedroom community for Canmore, not the other way around. Banff was actually protected from "going to hell" through the limitation. And I'm not arguing that Canmore should be offloading it's housing problems to Cochrane, that's just what individuals decide when they can't afford to live where they work. I'm saying Canmore should be able to deal with it themselves, but has failed, and giving more developers more rode to keep doing it doesn't make sense either. Building more weekend homes solves nothing.