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Originally Posted by Wolven
Well, we keep hearing about how the rezoning cleaned up 30 different zones in Calgary by consolidating. Is your argument that consolidating those zoning adds no value unless the RC1/RC2 zones are included? There must be some value, otherwise they wouldn't have bothered with the larger consolidation effort.
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It's about ripping the bandaid off once in a way that is fair to everyone. Or unfair to everyone if you prefer.
Infill ripe areas (ie. built in the 50s) have been effectively living under this system for years. If you live in a 60s neighbourhood it should have been pretty obvious that big changes were imminent. For everything newer, this is basically warning long in advance of how it will work when the time comes.
But the factors that made areas R1 in the first place are still generally there. They are the furthest from nodes and corridors. They were/are 'nicer' than their adjacent R2 counterparts. Ergo dwellings in R2/etc are more likely to be rundown and/or a better location, and therefore more likely to be redeveloped. But the free market will sort through things even more sensibly and fairly now, as hard as that may be to believe.