MichaelS
Senior Member
Rules made by a City Council can always be undone / remade by a subsequent City Council.
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Mountain Man
Senior Member
Does Airdrie need towers? 6 stories seems perfectly appropriate for "high density" there.
Albertasaurus
Senior Member
If I recall correctly, Airdrie doesn't have adequate firefighting equipment for highrise towers, which is one reason they don't have towers there and likely won't anytime soon.
darwink
Senior Member
wouldn't be too hard to 'prove' that a high tower would more than pay for itself. plus buy a firetruck to grease the wheels of the fire department. Who doesn't want more and diverse equipment 
Rollerstud98
Active Member
Airdrie census ongoing.
I'm going to say it'll pass the 90K mark.
JesseLikesCities
Active Member
Definitely, I was looking the last night and it put on almost 10k between it's previous two censuses.
Ah okay, for some reason I thought the last census was 5K increase. Either way Airdrie is close to 6 figures.
Rollerstud98
Active Member
I think the prediction 2as for 91k this year. There's actually some development happening to the north again now and quite a bit to the west.
Habanero
Active Member
Last year Airdrie grew by just over 5000, so 91K sounds accurate. Because of such a booming year for Calgary last year, I could see it maybe even being 92 or 93K.
zagox
Active Member
100,000 people and yet no reason to go there.
blue12
Active Member
Typical of most bedroom communities anywhere, though.
JoeUrban
Active Member
They just need to get an actual downtown going. Fill in the vacant lots in the commercial core.
But meh, to me Airdrie is Alberta's Mississauga. Complete with a downtown anchored by a shopping mall, just without all of the downtown towers...yet
JTron
Active Member
Airdrie’s downtown will build up, just a matter of when.
UrbanWarrior
Senior Member
Airdrie must be the largest city in the western hemisphere without a high rise (12 floors or more)... even Grand Prairie has a high rise 