I work for Mayor Nenshi, ask me anything!

[puffnstuff]

Just wondering about what appears to be an unfinished intersection redesign from last summer. 114 th and 24th in the SE. Final paving has never been done, theres huge humps in the pavement and roadway alongside curbs that was dug up and never repaired properly. And it seems like they measured and built wrong for total and/or lane width in a couple of places. Just really poorly done...or rather undone.
I did hear it was a developer doing/paying their promised roadway upgrade after building the community and not necessarily the City that was doing it, but honestly I have no idea.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Madman

Are bicycles not governed by the same traffic laws as a car?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't jump in my car and go 10km/h on Glenmore legally - so why can a bike?

They shouldn't. And I'm pretty sure they could get ticketed for doing so.

[para transit fellow]

Educate me. What is illegal about travelling 10 kph on Glenmore trail? What regulation?

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

Educate me. What is illegal about travelling 10 kph on Glenmore trail? What regulation?

I think that would be along the lines of impeding the normal flow of traffic and/or creating a hazard.

[northcrunk]

Why is Nenshi such a dick?

Midfield Mobile Home Park fighting mad over city changing deal to relocate them

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/01/19...-relocate-them

Eviction day is more than two years away but some residents of Midfield Mobile Home Park say they’ll refuse to leave unless the city honours its original agreement to relocate them.

City's excuses weak in mass Midfield Mobile Home Park eviction

http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/05/27...-park-eviction

The excuses are weak.
A city that pays endless lip service to providing affordable housing, refusing to fix a 40-year-old trailer park, or build a new one.

Looming eviction at Calgary's Midfield Trailer Park has many sad tales

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/04/25...many-sad-tales

Residents of Midfield Trailer Park say they’re feeling left out in the cold after the city announced its closure, effective Sept. 30, 2017.
Originally told a new park would be built on 84 St. N.E., residents suddenly received eviction notices on May 27, 2014, and were told those plans were being scrapped.

Calgary couple's dream to turn starter home in Midfield Trailer Park becomes nightmare

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/04/25...omes-nightmare

Just a few months after getting married in the spring of 2013, Calan and Laine Lovstoan thought they’d found the perfect starter home in Midfield Trailer Park.

They were well aware of the city’s plans to move Midfield to a new location in the East Hills area off 84 St. N.E., said Calan, and were even looking forward to it.

Calgary military vet facing new battle as eviction looms at Midfield Trailer Park

http://www.calgarysun.com/2015/04/25...d-trailer-park

As a 25-year veteran of the Canadian Armed Forces, Ron Hansen has been through his share of battles.
But the Midfield Trailer Park resident is gearing up for another one.
“We got hosed, there’s no other way to put it,” he said.

Broken Midfield Mobile Home Park promise a shameful legacy

http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/05/28...r-city-council

To Rudy Prediger, the value amounts to five bags of groceries.
For city council, its worth is in excess of $25 million — and if real estate prices in the same area are an indication, the 6.88 hectares of prime inner-city property currently occupied by Midfield Mobile Home Park could fetch more than $89.47 million on the open market.

[para transit fellow]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

I think that would be along the lines of impeding the normal flow of traffic and/or creating a hazard.

The reason I ask is that Rocky View county tried to get bicycles off the springbank road a few years ago. They were using arguments as suggested suggested here (unsafe, too slow, etc). The road in question is only two lanes, has no shoulders and a lot of speeding cars.

Ultimately, the municipality had to back down as the cyclists pushed back pointing out that Traffic safety act list bicycles as a moving vehicle under the Traffic safety act

The ruling is here:

http://www.vehicularcyclist.com/springbank.html

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

Why is Nenshi such a dick?

That's quite the dick-ish question.

Looking at all those articles, Nenshi was quoted in one of them so I'm not sure why he is taking the brunt of your spite.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by Bobblehead

That's quite the dick-ish question.

Looking at all those articles, Nenshi was quoted in one of them so I'm not sure why he is taking the brunt of your spite.

And every single one is a Calgary Sun article, so of course it's Nenshi's fault.

[northcrunk]

Nenshi ‘appreciates’ Bubbles’ opinion, but Midfield trailer park will still close
http://globalnews.ca/news/1940595/ne...l-still-close/

Calgary’s soon-to-be-closed Midfield Mobile Home Park got a celebrity mention from the Trailer Park Boys’ Bubbles on Monday, in a tweet urging the mayor to “stop destroying homes and lives in Midfield Park.” But Mayor Naheed Nenshi says Bubbles’ support won’t change the closure.

‘It tears us apart’: Residents being ousted from NE Calgary trailer park

http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/104...ile-home-park/

Three generations of Eunice Knelson’s family currently call a northeast trailer park home — there won’t be a fourth.
The City of Calgary declared Tuesday that it’s closing Midfield Mobile Home Park at the end of September 2017, forcing hundreds of tenants to find new digs.

Nenshi Responds To Bubbles' Criticism Of Midfield Mobile Home Park Closure

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/04...n_7083626.html


This despite residents were told even just before the decision when purchasing their homes that there was a plan to move the park. Those people are now going to be out $50,000-$100,000 each when they had to be approved by the city to purchase the home. Many people bought just before council changed their minds and are hooped.

[Zarley]

A trailer park is far from the best use of this land given its central location. In fact, trailer parks are one of the least economical ways or providing low-cost housing due to the massive amount of land they occupy at a fairly low density.

The City is being more than generous in giving these people $20,000 each. You can be sure that a private landowner would not do the same thing. The fact that they feel entitled to more seems a little ridiculous. This is rented land that these trailers sit on, it's not as if it's being expropriated.

[northcrunk]

Originally Posted by Zarley

A trailer park is far from the best use of this land given its central location. In fact, trailer parks are one of the least economical ways or providing low-cost housing due to the massive amount of land they occupy at a fairly low density.

The City is being more than generous in giving these people $20,000 each. You can be sure that a private landowner would not do the same thing. The fact that they feel entitled to more seems a little ridiculous. This is rented land that these trailers sit on, it's not as if it's being expropriated.

That's not the issue. These people were promised that the park was going to be relocated to East Hills out 84th st. east of town. After they purchased their homes council changed their minds and decided to tell them to go find your own land. It costs $10,000 just to move a trailer and with no spaces in town their trailers are worthless.

One couple was moving in to their new purchase and got a notice that day that the park was closing. Residents had to be approved by the city of calgary to purchase the homes in the first place. If council had it in the plans to not move them then why would they approve the purchases?

[Zarley]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

That's not the issue. These people were promised that the park was going to be relocated to East Hills out 84th st. east of town. After they purchased their homes council changed their minds and decided to tell them to go find your own land. It costs $10,000 just to move a trailer and with no spaces in town their trailers are worthless.

One couple was moving in to their new purchase and got a notice that day that the park was closing. Residents had to be approved by the city of calgary to purchase the homes in the first place. If council had it in the plans to not move them then why would they approve the purchases?

Why are taxpayers responsible for finding them a new site for their trailer? I feel sorry that these people are being forced to move, but that's the risk one takes when renting land they don't own.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

That's not the issue. These people were promised that the park was going to be relocated to East Hills out 84th st. east of town. After they purchased their homes council changed their minds and decided to tell them to go find your own land. It costs $10,000 just to move a trailer and with no spaces in town their trailers are worthless.

One couple was moving in to their new purchase and got a notice that day that the park was closing. Residents had to be approved by the city of calgary to purchase the homes in the first place. If council had it in the plans to not move them then why would they approve the purchases?

Well they can sue for alleged negligent (or other) misrepresentation...

In regards to the policy aspect, I agree with others. Trailer parks are a terrible use of city space and affordable housing, and that is prime real estate for other ventures (including, perhaps affordable housing in the form of apartments)

[Cappy]

What is the timeline for construction on the 8th Street corridor?

[Derek Sutton]

What rate of city sales tax is Nenshi wanting to impose?

[Daorcey]

Originally Posted by Derek Sutton

What rate of city sales tax is Nenshi wanting to impose?

Mayor Nenshi isn't planning to impose a city sales tax. It's not actually something municipalities in Alberta can do. If you're referencing his call for more funding for cities to build things like the Green Line (NE-SE LRT), the ideal situation is that Calgary gets more of a fair share of the billions of dollars sent to the other orders of governments by Calgarians. This is part of the conversation related to City Charters.

[Kavvy]

Originally Posted by Daorcey

Mayor Nenshi isn't planning to impose a city sales tax. It's not actually something municipalities in Alberta can do. If you're referencing his call for more funding for cities to build things like the Green Line (NE-SE LRT), the ideal situation is that Calgary gets more of a fair share of the billions of dollars sent to the other orders of governments by Calgarians. This is part of the conversation related to City Charters.

I am confused. Our Mayor wants the city charter to have the ability to create a city sales tax, does he not?

In the quote below, the provincial funding deal portion of the quote seems in alignment with your statement. However, the quote also implies he wants to get implement a city sales tax. If not, what is his idea for his new revenue generating powers? That screams new tax?

He’ll continue pushing in 2014 for a city charter that gives Calgary new revenue-generating powers or a different provincial funding deal that weans the city off its reliance on property tax, which Nenshi has long derided as regressive.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...909/story.html

[Addick]

Originally Posted by Kavvy

If not, what is his idea for his new revenue generating powers? That screams new tax?

One new revenue stream that would not add to the tax burden would be the Province providing municipalities with a percentage of their revenue from the Provincial Income Tax.

[llwhiteoutll]

Originally Posted by Addick

One new revenue stream that would not add to the tax burden would be the Province providing municipalities with a percentage of their revenue from the Provincial Income Tax.

I don't think a city charter would force the provincial government to do anything though. They make the determination as to what percentage is sent back to cities.

Him saying he wants to expand the city's powers reads that he wants the ability to do something on the municipal level to increase revenue (increased municipal taxation).

[Fire]

Originally Posted by Kavvy

I am confused. Our Mayor wants the city charter to have the ability to create a city sales tax, does he not?

In the quote below, the provincial funding deal portion of the quote seems in alignment with your statement. However, the quote also implies he wants to get implement a city sales tax. If not, what is his idea for his new revenue generating powers? That screams new tax?




http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...909/story.html

Nenshi would definitely try to implement a new sales tax if the provincial government would allow it. With the PCs and especially the Wildrose in power I would say their would be no chance, but with the NDP I really don't know how they would feel about it. They would probably want to implement their own sales tax in addition to it.