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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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.
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Fair point on Banff originating as a tourist town. Thanks for catching I reversed Canmore/Cochrane. Fixed. Too many C____e towns!