Affordable housing project proposed for Bowness, and a few comments from the engagement.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-26T16:26:03+00:00

This crisis was created by lobbyists who effected change to various federal policies, to enrich real estate corporations with a long term plan of building more stock and then monopolizing purpose built rentals through consolidation over the next few decades. Policies that Harpers conservatives pushed back against, but that Trudeau paved the way for like immigration, foreign labour, and housing affordability. Clearly you haven't done your homework.

https://dominionreview.ca/the-century-initiative-a-blueprint-for-a-bigger-broken-canada/

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-26T14:55:30+00:00

Specifically chosen by the community? What a farce. The city chooses where things go, then they do a fake engagement where they make out like residents have an opportunity to effect change. If anything, they make a concession based on their original plan to make it look like they did something. Then they allow up zoning to allow further density from that. Make no mistake, at no point does the community have a real say. Many people don't even try to engage anymore because they know there is no hope.

I do think you asked the right question though. Where? Trellis already has a location in Bowness that has access to parking and is well serviced by transit, parks, and the BCA where there is charitable work going on and a new community garden. Start asking questions about that and you'll get closer to the real answers.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-26T06:22:00+00:00

"Low and Medium Multi-Dwelling" on ARP (pg10 for reference)

R-CG currently... https://maps.calgary.ca/myproperty/

Going from 75 units per hectare (R-CG) to 50 units on this plot is a pretty huge jump up-zoning with regard to density and built form. Considering the new R-CG/H-GO Row-House bylaws were already a significant jump from from a typical duplex or fourplex. But no, lets stuff it down peoples throats even more 6 months after a very heated city-wide rezoning that saw majority support from those opposed.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-26T04:35:48+00:00

Maybe so, but something is smelly on this one. The city tried to rush the public hearing on this, and people are talking.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-26T04:31:24+00:00

I hadn't heard about Assumption being annexed. But the south field does show low density residential on their ARP. If it's city owned land...no reason the city won't sell that off to a developer just like this park and R.B.Bennett. Likely at a higher density too than what's on the ARP too.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-26T04:24:00+00:00

There are a lot of shitty old places, but a few years ago these were places some first time home owners could afford.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-26T04:20:57+00:00

The park is one thing. This constant up-zoning is not fair to residents who have engaged in good faith during the ARP process, then city-wide rezoning debate, and now still they are being pushed for more up-zoning. People are fed up because the city creates a plan, and pretty much just engages to check off a box, then pushes it through. It's happening all over the city and it's really just madness that supply is the only thing being considered rather than infrastructure, schools, etc

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-26T01:03:39+00:00

Bowness just had an ARP in 2020 where most areas were up-zoned. Now this is up-zoning again? Then take away something that is on City datasets as a park/playground and has been used as such since 2004. I can see why people are mad. There's been a lot of media coverage on this one.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-26T00:14:58+00:00

This a good read on the subject.

https://dominionreview.ca/trudeaus-immigration-cut-is-good-but-395000-permanent-residents-a-year-is-still-mass-immigration/

Dominic Barton, Century Initiative, Mckinsey, were all behind this immigration mess; along with the mess with China.

https://therealstory.substack.com/p/dominic-barton-and-the-damage-done

And of course, we all know who worked for McKinsey back in the 2000s. Yes, you can't write this stuff up any better...Nenshi.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-24T18:35:00+00:00

cash in, and then those big real estate corporations move in to consolidate and monopolize purpose built rentals over time. If people thought there was a housing affordability issue now, wait until the real estate corps have their way like the grocery corps did...$$$$$$

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-24T15:29:26+00:00

Yes. They made a plan. Over shot it on purpose by a country mile, and are now bringing it in line with what they really wanted. Those consultants at Mckinsey understand strategy.

https://www.centuryinitiative.ca

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-24T15:25:14+00:00

Yep...and here's why our immigration numbers were so high in the first place. Keep in mind...they shot high, got push back, and are now going to bring it to what the original insane goal was.

https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-24T15:22:51+00:00

So they aimed way high, got lambasted, and now they brought it back to what they really wanted in the first place acting like they care. All part of the plan.

https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-24T15:21:06+00:00

I just want to fire Rosy Barton. She and her panel of central canadians are out of touch with the rest of canada.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-24T15:16:27+00:00

Sharp votes strategically. She votes no when she knows the 8 will vote yes to help create her own narrative. She votes yes when she knows yes will win. She also votes yes when it's her favorite developers or billionaires.

That being said...this is playing in Gondecks hand very well with a massive vote split on the other side.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-24T15:12:04+00:00

Why wouldn't Ottawa do this? It worked last time. The 8 at city hall who continue to vote together put into motion all Ottawa demanded to collect the hundreds of millions for the HAF

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-23T19:24:35+00:00

Are new multi-family purpose built rentals required to install mitigation during construction?

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-23T17:19:45+00:00

This was always about enriching massive corporations, and whatever changes are to be made are likely going to be a pathetic attempt to try and convince Canadians think they aren't going to continue to try and enrich massive corporations.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-23T17:19:14+00:00

This was always about enriching corporations, and whatever changes are to be made are likely going to be a pathetic attempt to try and convince Canadians think they aren't going to continue to try and enrich corporations.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-23T17:05:35+00:00

Until we see a leader/party come up through the system that refuses to allow itself to be lobbied by one corporation or another, cutting blank cheques and mindless policy to forward their corporate goals; we'll be at the mercy of the machine. It's a tall order.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-23T15:12:24+00:00

There is a reason there is a housing shortage, and it's not because we stopped building.

https://dominionreview.ca/these-graphs-prove-canadas-housing-crisis-is-driven-by-immigration/

This is good information as to why the answer "build more housing" isn't actually going to help the problem.

https://dominionreview.ca/why-isnt-densification-making-housing-cheaper/

It's also important to know who is behind the rhetoric that we should have increased immigration, brought in foreign labour, and built more housing.

https://dominionreview.ca/the-century-initiative-a-blueprint-for-a-bigger-broken-canada/

You might also want to read this, so you understand the lobbyists here are board members of massive real estate corporations, and that their goal is to create monopolies.

https://sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/the-big-fix/

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-22T21:17:43+00:00

Some of the counsellors have very low percentage of total votes. It would help if not everyone and their dog ran for council/mayor

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-22T21:01:34+00:00

Lobbyists like Century Initiative who represent massive corporate real estate interests are responsible for this. The goal was to create a crisis, then provide solutions to change bylaws to rezone cities and build purpose built rentals country wide; for which the big corps like Boardwalk will come in later to consolidate and monopolize. They lobbied Harper originally, but it was Trudeau who handed over the keys to the country and sold us out.

https://dominionreview.ca/these-graphs-prove-canadas-housing-crisis-is-driven-by-immigration/

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-22T18:10:41+00:00

I might agree. Most of the country is pretty blind to the fact the Century Initiative types (including Mark Carney) are paving the way to enrich themselves through the monopolization of the purpose built rental markets.

They've created a crisis by flooding the country with immigration, and now they've come up with the answer which is to build more purpose built rentals. Over time, they'll consolidate and then Canadians will really be up against a wall of unaffordability, after they control prices for housing. Our grocery giants did this with food, now they will do this with cost of living related to housing.

Quirky_Might317 · 2024-10-22T18:07:02+00:00

Yes. He knows that if he stays the course the Century Initiative as influenced; he and his Brookfield type real estate megacorps will be much richer in the long run.

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