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Old 01-11-2019, 02:18 PM   #1069
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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee View Post
Well they better pray for a reason for people to come live here other than oil and gas. We can’t fill the towers we already have. 50 years, 100 years, 200 years, you have to have some confidence the city will grow and be viable. Right now there is absolutely zero reason to believe the city is ready for any growth no matter what timeframe.

To me, a plan like that screams just how detached from reality the City Council is. They don’t understand how dire things are here. Calgary is in emergency mode in my mind.
The city grew by over 40,000 people during the NEP. Today at less than half the growth of that period we’d grow by over 40,000 again in the next 5 years. At a modest growth of 5% over the next 10 years (significantly worse than the 80s, which was pretty dire, and twice as bad as Winnipeg in the past decade, which isn’t exactly hopping with bright-eyed optimism economically) the city will add over 125,000 people in the next decade.

So not planning for “any growth” is pretty ridiculous, and pretty detached from reality.
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