Canmore population to double? Legal battle?

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Zoning has everything to do with the problems. Canmorites vote for the dumbest councilors ever. They blocked employee housing lol. $0 cost to taxpayers. Immediate housing online for workers. Nope, let's block it because we might need a warehouse in the future.

https://www.rmoutlook.com/canmore/em...-areas-7507591

I want you to run for mayor.

[para transit fellow]

Originally Posted by troutman

Fortress Mountain proposing all-season resort for Kananaskis Country

https://www.rmoutlook.com/kananaskis...untry-11368826

I am sure that another re-opening of Fortress Mountain will work out well... again!

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by para transit fellow

I am sure that another re-opening of Fortress Mountain will work out well... again!

I think it has a better chance if they add summer attractions - the summer is the true busy season for tourists to the Rockies, and if they have a $200 zip-lining experience to sell that'll help. It also allows you to leverage fixed costs all year round, so you have more revenue to cover the permanent employees, insurance, etc.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

I think it has a better chance if they add summer attractions - the summer is the true busy season for tourists to the Rockies, and if they have a $200 zip-lining experience to sell that'll help. It also allows you to leverage fixed costs all year round, so you have more revenue to cover the permanent employees, insurance, etc.

Zip lines, mountain bike trails that are accessed from the chairlifts, downhill rail coaster. Stuff like that, Panorama has done it in recent years and it seems to see a lot of use.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Zip lines, mountain bike trails that are accessed from the chairlifts, downhill rail coaster. Stuff like that, Panorama has done it in recent years and it seem to see a lot of use.

Yeah, we go to Panorama usually every summer and have done a lot of that stuff - the mountain coaster is really neat, always busy, and is fairly expensive. They must be making $$ on that.

Panorama cares more about keeping the summer busy because they own so much lodging in the area - Fortress won't have that incentive. But they will have HR/accounting/management staff that need to be year round, so might as well utilize them in the summer and develop another profit centre. I think it has a chance if they do a good job with the summer revenue.

[Shazam]

There's a lot more people in the province now and places like Banff/Canmore/LL are too busy.

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by Shazam

There's a lot more people in the province now and places like Banff/Canmore/LL are too busy.

We need a new mountain town.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

We need a new mountain town.

Can we call it South Park?

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

We need a new mountain town.

Time to blow up Harvey Heights?

[Johnny Makarov]

Deadmans Flat

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

We need a new mountain town.

No permanent residents or STRs allowed. Only second homes.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

Yeah, we go to Panorama usually every summer and have done a lot of that stuff - the mountain coaster is really neat, always busy, and is fairly expensive. They must be making $$ on that.

Panorama cares more about keeping the summer busy because they own so much lodging in the area - Fortress won't have that incentive. But they will have HR/accounting/management staff that need to be year round, so might as well utilize them in the summer and develop another profit centre. I think it has a chance if they do a good job with the summer revenue.

Just steal all sorts of ideas from Revelstoke and Golden. Maybe even Whistler. Some ideas exist, add more.

- Pipe mountain coaster.
- Disc golf
- Bridges
- Enchanted forest type attractions that blend nature and man made added fantasy
- Places to sit down and just enjoy food and drink and natural scenery
- A premium driving range experience with the most wicked of views. (ie: Repurpose an older golf course hole and allow someone to just crank balls driving range style from there... similar to the hole beside bow falls where you drive over the river towards a fairway that sorta curves up the mountain concept)
- Do we want a premium outlet area like other tourist towns?
- Massive expansion (hopefully sustainably) for camping and tenting in the nearby areas/more remote areas not far from Transcanada

etc.

The problem is people will like it, and many people already dislike how many people like going to the mountains. Need more travel logistics for it like trains, regular double decker busses, overflow parking etc. The only solution to not let Canmore/Banff straight up blow up/melt down might be to try and develop in other areas instead. I'm thinking developing Kananaskis village and Lake Louise village into a premium destination that must be accessed by local transit (ie: shuttles from overflow) and then massive camping ground expansion in the region.

I took some friends to the mountains a few summers ago and the bussing availability was abysmal. Almost got trapped at a resort when the buses were totally full and we almost missed our bus because kids had to go to the bathroom at the best of times.

[Fuzz]

Kananaskis is an option, but places like Harvey Heights and Lake Louise just don't have enough developable area. And the idea of the NP embracing massive growth at LL is fantasy that isn't worth battling anyway.

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

We need a new mountain town.

Exshaw’s time to shine!

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

Zip lines, mountain bike trails that are accessed from the chairlifts, downhill rail coaster. Stuff like that, Panorama has done it in recent years and it seems to see a lot of use.

A downhill coaster would be awesome. We've done this type of stuff in other places and it is a lot of fun. There were some really cool ones in Quebec that we tried.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

A downhill coaster would be awesome. We've done this type of stuff in other places and it is a lot of fun. There were some really cool ones in Quebec that we tried.

The one in Golden sucks big time. It's so short.

At the same location, though, there's one of those rope swings you sit in and you plummet into the valley...that's a rush. The worker told me I was the last person he expected to scream. Thanks, guy.

[Lumby Lager]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Zoning has everything to do with the problems. Canmorites vote for the dumbest councilors ever. They blocked employee housing lol. $0 cost to taxpayers. Immediate housing online for workers. Nope, let's block it because we might need a warehouse in the future.

https://www.rmoutlook.com/canmore/em...-areas-7507591

Some of them sure are not so swift, a few are amazing to deal with and quite smart. I worked with a few of them over the years in Canmore and have a lot of respect for Foubert, worked with her for years at the Outlook and other places.

I get scared every time the town tries to solve the housing problem, they F it up every time! One project that was done in 3 Sisters was shut down for ages because the developer was not getting paid. The units were not quite almost to lock up stage and then they sat for ever and got completely infested by mold. When the project got restarted every unit had to be remediated before it could be finished and the cost of so called affordable homes went through the roof.

Most of the people I know that were and still are residents say Canmorons not Canmorites.

[woob]

Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers

We need a new mountain town.

Nordegg is getting a natural gas line. Maybe that'll be the new mountain's edge town.

[Bigtime]

Originally Posted by woob

Nordegg is getting a natural gas line. Maybe that'll be the new mountain's edge town.

Pretty sure I was hearing talk about just that the last few days on CBC Radio.

[woob]

You're correct. It was on the drive home the other night.