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Old 12-15-2022, 08:00 AM   #1161
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Did you bother to say click on that link?



I guess it's a mystery we will never know.

But then knowing wouldn’t allow you to plead ignorance.

Woah. Is Curves2000 actually Sean Chu? Can we triangulate the location of these posts to the public parking near city hall?
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Old 12-15-2022, 09:21 AM   #1162
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I don't know what the proper term for the guy is and it doesn't really matter. If you're in your mid-30's (or really much above 21-23) and your go to defence is "I thought she was legal", you basically have no defence. That goes doubly for people in positions of power.
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I don't know what the proper term for the guy is and it doesn't really matter. If you're in your mid-30's (or really much above 21-23) and your go to defence is "I thought she was legal", you basically have no defence. That goes doubly for people in positions of power.
Maybe the term for the guy is:

Piece of $hit
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TIL I should stop calling Jeffery Epstein a pedophile because he wasn't found guilty of it.
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Old 12-15-2022, 10:18 AM   #1166
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There are so many injustices in this world, it's so crazy to zero in on a creep getting +/- 20% too much or too little public scorn as your cause du jour.
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Old 12-15-2022, 10:20 AM   #1167
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TIL I should stop calling Jeffery Epstein a pedophile because he wasn't found guilty of it.
Hitler never even had his day in court either...not to mention poor ole' Joey Stalin.
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Old 12-15-2022, 10:25 AM   #1168
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Hitler never even had his day in court either...not to mention poor ole' Joey Stalin.
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OJ was found criminally not guilty of murder and besides, the glove didn't fit!
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Old 01-11-2023, 09:21 PM   #1170
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https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...nsite-councils
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Maybe this is not the best thread to ask this question but does anyone know what the process is for having residential parking zones evaluated? Is there a form to fill out somewhere or what do I have to submit and to whom?

There are various changes happening to the program this year and to be honest I am not interested in keeping up with the changes going forward every year and I don't want to have to pay for parking permits. Our street has parking restrictions although they do not appear to be necessary so I would to have that reviewed and hopefully have the restrictions removed.
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Old 01-26-2023, 11:05 AM   #1172
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Maybe this is not the best thread to ask this question but does anyone know what the process is for having residential parking zones evaluated? Is there a form to fill out somewhere or what do I have to submit and to whom?

There are various changes happening to the program this year and to be honest I am not interested in keeping up with the changes going forward every year and I don't want to have to pay for parking permits. Our street has parking restrictions although they do not appear to be necessary so I would to have that reviewed and hopefully have the restrictions removed.
I'm not too sure, but I believe you'd have to get a bunch of your neighbours on board to ask the city for a review.
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I just found out that they changed the rules again, for my condo's zone and size previously anyone renting my condo couldn't get on street parking at all. Which hurt my ability to rent it since it's a large 2 bedroom so I'd usually get a young couple or 2 singles typically with 2 cars.

I guess for 2023 now residents can apply for a residential permit for $100 a month, though from what I understand there's no limit on the permits so there's no guarantee that you'll have a spot even if you buy one? That doesn't seem like a good idea, though not sure how else you could do it.

I'm also not clear if the permits are available to renters since when I went into the website to see what it looked like to buy one the documentation options all seemed to imply that the owner was applying, I guess I'll have to call them to find out unless someone happens to know for sure.
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I'm not too sure, but I believe you'd have to get a bunch of your neighbours on board to ask the city for a review.
That much I assumed and isn't a problem because I know that a number of my neighbors have no issue with parking and would support getting rid of permits. I'm just not sure what we do next.
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I just found out that they changed the rules again, for my condo's zone and size previously anyone renting my condo couldn't get on street parking at all. Which hurt my ability to rent it since it's a large 2 bedroom so I'd usually get a young couple or 2 singles typically with 2 cars.

I guess for 2023 now residents can apply for a residential permit for $100 a month, though from what I understand there's no limit on the permits so there's no guarantee that you'll have a spot even if you buy one? That doesn't seem like a good idea, though not sure how else you could do it.

I'm also not clear if the permits are available to renters since when I went into the website to see what it looked like to buy one the documentation options all seemed to imply that the owner was applying, I guess I'll have to call them to find out unless someone happens to know for sure.
It's the city declaring war on renters and low income people. Although, let's be honest, city hall doesn't really consider low income earners people at all. Undesirables may be a better term.

The prices are insane and are only going to further increase the disparity in our city. It's going to drive people out of the inner city and into the suburbs because it'll be the only place left they can afford to live. This will only further cause decay to our already struggling transit systems.

Not to mention instead of raising revenues from the most fortunate and wealthy calgarians, the burden will now be on people who live in multifamily dwellings, low income families and the elderly who live in their inner city century homes.

We truly have a complete garbage city council. They don't get enough attention for the awful, awful job they're doing. If it weren't for Kenney/Smith face planting so badly all the time, I'd say they're far and away the most incompetent level of government we deal with.

I mean, I'm sure when the councillors were accepting their bribes from the various interest groups who support this, they reminded them to put out a bunch of BS statements that this is all about encouraging transit and benefitting our already overstuffed side streets but it's pretty clear that's all complete bull####. This is about increasing revenues by ####ing over people who have no means to fight back and have little to no political clout.

The real winners here are the builders, fossil fuel companies, insurance companies and car manufacturers/dealerships because this is going to kill transit.


This could probably be cross posted into the meth thread because they are intrinsically linked.

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https://calgarysun.com/opinion/colum...enshi-politics

Interesting read.

I wonder if the tiger can change it's spots.
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I just found out that they changed the rules again, for my condo's zone and size previously anyone renting my condo couldn't get on street parking at all. Which hurt my ability to rent it since it's a large 2 bedroom so I'd usually get a young couple or 2 singles typically with 2 cars.

I guess for 2023 now residents can apply for a residential permit for $100 a month, though from what I understand there's no limit on the permits so there's no guarantee that you'll have a spot even if you buy one? That doesn't seem like a good idea, though not sure how else you could do it.
You can only get one "Market Permit" per dwelling unit.
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You can only get one "Market Permit" per dwelling unit.
But does that have to be the owner (I don't have one)? Or can it be a resident (i.e. they show a lease agreement)?
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Residents. EDIT: I think you could get one, as owner, but then your tenant can't.
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It's the city declaring war on renters and low income people. Although, let's be honest, city hall doesn't really consider low income earners people at all. Undesirables may be a better term.

The prices are insane and are only going to further increase the disparity in our city. It's going to drive people out of the inner city and into the suburbs because it'll be the only place left they can afford to live. This will only further cause decay to our already struggling transit systems.

Not to mention instead of raising revenues from the most fortunate and wealthy calgarians, the burden will now be on people who live in multifamily dwellings, low income families and the elderly who live in their inner city century homes.

We truly have a complete garbage city council. They don't get enough attention for the awful, awful job they're doing. If it weren't for Kenney/Smith face planting so badly all the time, I'd say they're far and away the most incompetent level of government we deal with.

I mean, I'm sure when the councillors were accepting their bribes from the various interest groups who support this, they reminded them to put out a bunch of BS statements that this is all about encouraging transit and benefitting our already overstuffed side streets but it's pretty clear that's all complete bull####. This is about increasing revenues by ####ing over people who have no means to fight back and have little to no political clout.

The real winners here are the builders, fossil fuel companies, insurance companies and car manufacturers/dealerships because this is going to kill transit.


This could probably be cross posted into the meth thread because they are intrinsically linked.
I don't know if I saw it as aggressively as you but I agree, the prices are insane. Up to $250/month to park a vehicle at your residence is significant.

We're in a single family home in a parking controlled area so we're lukcy to have appropriate on site parking for our vehicles. (Which I guess furthers your point that those that can afford a place with parking are not being penalized.) That said, we're not thrilled about needing to pay for visitor passes. Honestly, we use our visitor pass a few times a year. For the cost, we're better off offering to reimburse our guests if they get ticketed than paying for visitor passes that are hardly used.

On the plus side, after all of the vehicles belonging to our neighbors are off the front street, our visitors will no longer have a hard time finding parking.
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