haltcatchfire
Senior Member
Condo boards want no part of a landscape maintenance fee and rental buildings can barely get light bulbs changed by their management company. Perpetuated by residents with no pride of ownership. Sad really.
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Condo boards want no part of a landscape maintenance fee and rental buildings can barely get light bulbs changed by their management company. Perpetuated by residents with no pride of ownership. Sad really.
adamyyc
Active Member
Frankly, I don’t think condo owners in Calgary get very good value for condo fees. I have a hard time understanding why condo fees are as high as they are in Calgary when the services/amenities don’t seem to match.
MichaelS
Senior Member
Insurance for one (at least lately, premiums for condo corporations have become insane the last few years).
DougB
Active Member
They sure have increased rapidly, and seem higher than comparable buildings in BC and ON. Five years ago, a middle of the road strata was ~$450/ month. Now it seems more ~$750
MichaelS
Senior Member
The land use for this one goes to CPC this week.
Report, Background, Applicant Submission CA Letter,
Report, Background, Applicant Submission CA Letter,
badc0ffee
Active Member
LOC2023-0081:
Hearing Scheduled A Council public hearing is scheduled for December 05, 2023. Public submissions to City Council must be received by the City Clerk between November 16, 2023 and before noon on November 28, 2023. Comments received after this deadline may be excluded from the Council agenda.
Hearing Scheduled A Council public hearing is scheduled for December 05, 2023. Public submissions to City Council must be received by the City Clerk between November 16, 2023 and before noon on November 28, 2023. Comments received after this deadline may be excluded from the Council agenda.
JoeUrban
Active Member
JoeUrban
Active Member
I like this. It's good density by an LRT station and it's north of the SFH so no shadowing concerns.
I'd like to see similar on the block just to the west.
And I'm not sure if it was foresight or just luck but just north of the AMA is 4 story multifamily going down to 2 story multifamily. Just need to redevelop the AMA site with 6-8 stories.
I'd like to see similar on the block just to the west.
And I'm not sure if it was foresight or just luck but just north of the AMA is 4 story multifamily going down to 2 story multifamily. Just need to redevelop the AMA site with 6-8 stories.
JoeUrban
Active Member
Actually the AMA and medium density to the north of it was a drive in movie from the mid 1950s until around 1980, although it may have been abandoned during a portion of that time. The AMA building and housing were all built by 1982
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badc0ffee
Active Member
JoeUrban
Active Member
ArcGIS Web Application
maps.calgary.ca
Click the layers icon and you can overlay many years of airphotos.
JoeUrban
Active Member
I find it fascinating not just to see how buildings have changed but also roads. Sometimes country roads are completely erased, sometimes they are reused and sometimes just random portions of them still exist no longer connected.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
There goes my dayArcGIS Web Application
Click the layers icon and you can overlay many years of airphotos.
badc0ffee
Active Member
I noticed this with Old Banff Coach Road. It has remained largely intact in Springbank, but has been pieced up and reused in a bunch of different ways within the city. And west of Springbank, the original road seems to be gone/grown over.
Then there is the slow train wreck of Victoria Park being swallowed up by the Stampede Grounds. I previously thought it had all kind of happened at once around 2007, but it was already underway by the mid-70s. And I never pieced together that the Corral was on 17 Ave, which you could take all the way to the Elbow River.
(Sorry for continuing the off-topic derail here!)
JoeUrban
Active Member
I created a thread
Calgary Imagery historic airphoto site discussion thread
This a terrible title but I couldn't think of anything better. I wanted to start a thread about the Calgary Imagery site (https://maps.calgary.ca/CalgaryImagery/Imagery/) which is a GIS which allows you to overlay 37 different years of airphotos between 1924 and 2022. It's a super useful tool...