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Originally Posted by calgarybornnraised
I need just one foolish”personal legacy/ vision” capital project.
So the city grew from a few hundred thousand to well over a million since the last Mayor and then Nenshi..what was he supposed to do? taxes should have stayed the same? Who pays for the infastructre? Look how hard it was to get a goddamn runway.
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Calgary was not a city of a few hundred thousand under Bronconnier, the population was over 1 million at the end of his final term. With an increased tax base, along with the city's requirement that developers to contribute an increased portion toward the costs of infrastructure serving their communities, Calgary has been doing less with more under Nenshi. The city has been experiencing an increased infrastructure deficit in spite of an increased tax base (this coming tax year will be different, because a sharp drop in commercial property values will likely trigger a much larger increase in residential taxes that I will not blame on the current council) and steep increases in the mill rate every year. Building tunnels to nowhere, bridges that place form over function, overpriced (and in some cases plagiarized) public art, and designer libraries (nothing against libraries, but a larger, more efficient one could have been built for a significantly lower cost) has been the M.O. of the current city council and the one before it, and has been the reason that the city has not been getting the infrastructure it needs.