I'm in favour of blanket rezoning, but has anyone presented a rebuttal of the lack of parking space? Does the city have plans to boost transit so that people can do away with their cars?
Seems doubtful, even with higher spending bus services (and ridership) are still reduced from pre-COVID days and much of the fleet is very old and needs replacement. And the Green Line is effectively taking all money for LRT for the next 20-30 years.
I’d like to see where these single family homes are that have absolutely no parking besides on the street.
While I am sure there are, is it prevalent as people are making it out to be?
Yes, but it's intellectually dishonest..Many people parknon the street because their garagea are full of junk.
A more legitimate reason is that with the price of houses, children stay at home a lot longer, and households wind up with four cars.
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I'm in favour of blanket rezoning, but has anyone presented a rebuttal of the lack of parking space? Does the city have plans to boost transit so that people can do away with their cars?
We could always put a price on the public storage of private property absolutely everywhere, but obviously that wouldn't be popular as we have a weird and irrational relationship with automobiles.
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I very briefly included this in my 5 minutes this evening
Note: Youtube screen cap is not my presentation
Craig Chandler alert at 7 hours and 11 minutes:
Use of words, "globalist" "anti-property" "liberalism of the inner cities" "15 minute cities" "i dont want to turn ward 12 into a ghetto" "George Soros and Kalus Schwab" "you own nothing and you will be happy" "union overlords"
Use of words, "globalist" "anti-property" "liberalism of the inner cities" "15 minute cities" "i dont want to turn ward 12 into a ghetto" "George Soros and Kalus Schwab" "you own nothing and you will be happy" "union overlords"
this guy ran for council...
such a hateable person
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Use of words, "globalist" "anti-property" "liberalism of the inner cities" "15 minute cities" "i dont want to turn ward 12 into a ghetto" "George Soros and Kalus Schwab" "you own nothing and you will be happy" "union overlords"
this guy ran for council...
Funnily enough at the previous public council meeting on affordable housing (the one right before this one), I wound up speaking on the same panel as Craig Chandler and he was in favour of the housing affordability task force's recommendations and berating Dan McLean for not following Pierre Polievre's lead and crushing red tape and gatekeepers.
....but now it's been framed as the Trudeau-Gondek plan, all because of Trudeau's immigration and the WEF so we can go back to it being a partisan issue as is tradition.
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Okay, seriously how does a motion pass 9-6 at YYC council to explore granting voting rights in municipal elections to permanent residents who are non-citizens? Seriously how was this not laughed out let alone have the support of the mayor and 8 councillors.
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Okay, seriously how does a motion pass 9-6 at YYC council to explore granting voting rights in municipal elections to permanent residents who are non-citizens? Seriously how was this not laughed out let alone have the support of the mayor and 8 councillors.
I'd be OK with that as a policy.
But it seems to me that this council has enough problems that are their responsibility to deal with that they don't need to spend time on stuff that isn't their problem.
Okay, seriously how does a motion pass 9-6 at YYC council to explore granting voting rights in municipal elections to permanent residents who are non-citizens? Seriously how was this not laughed out let alone have the support of the mayor and 8 councillors.
Really?? At minimum to participate in democracy in Canada you should at least be a citizen. It shows the most basic long term commitment to the country. I wouldn't want an influx of transient residents who aren't committed to being in Canada long term have a say and potentially sway any decision making at the government level. I don't understand where this comes from at the civic level (Ie what is the problem they are trying to solve with this).
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Really?? At minimum to participate in democracy in Canada you should at least be a citizen. It shows the most basic long term commitment to the country. I wouldn't want an influx of transient residents who aren't committed to being in Canada long term have a say and potentially sway any decision making at the government level. I don't understand where this comes from at the civic level (Ie what is the problem they are trying to solve with this).
I don’t know about the transient part, but it’s entirely rational to think that we should have citizens making decisions for the citizens of the country. According to Google, only 45% of permanent residents become citizens within a decade.
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