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  1. CBBarnett

    Calgary | Village Block | 27m | 6s | Liberty Housing | Metafor

    So it begins, can't even list for $2M anymore nearby. This one is only $1.9M https://www.realtor.ca/real-estate/26412644/139-35-street-nw-calgary-parkdale
  2. CBBarnett

    Calgary | Village Block | 27m | 6s | Liberty Housing | Metafor

    It's a strange system we have where the community's problems are disproportionally defined through the impact of a single development. The status quo - regardless of how unsafe or dangerous it is - has little obvious or responsive mechanism to fix itself, such as Memorial's Drive's...
  3. CBBarnett

    Statscan numbers

    Calgary - the row-house king of Canada! It's not something we are known for but all this grinding and policy work to get semi-detached and then infill rows really scaled up to the point we are regularly one of the best producers for this segment in the country. Now it's totally common in both...
  4. CBBarnett

    Calgary Bike Lanes and Bike Paths

    This is a fair point, but needs to be solved instead of concluding it's too hard and therefore the rules make no sense. 100% compliance on snow parking bans are probably not actually an achievable thing - but it's the goal. They push for the goal, there's probably a bunch of weird exceptions...
  5. CBBarnett

    Calgary | Green Line LRT | ?m | ?s | Calgary Transit

    Within reading the rest of the report for additional context, seems like a weird conclusion - I think I am missing the assumptions that were used here. The biggest part that's missing is what do they mean by "transitway"? Two possible definitions: If "transitway" means full dedicated lanes...
  6. CBBarnett

    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    This is particularly true on the semi-detached and modest infill sub-market where this R-CG up-zoning is targeted, where it's not a whole level more complicated to produce 4 townhomes if you know how to produce 1. Makes barriers to entry fairly low for any small builder, particularly if there's...
  7. CBBarnett

    Infill Development Discussion

    From what I recall about the studies I read from Auckland who successfully did this citywide approach to allow incremental density everywhere: 1. The biggest growth in housing production was in popular middle income neighbourhoods. The reason was it had a proven market (but was artificially...
  8. CBBarnett

    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    Why not both? The whole goal is more freedom of housing choice - some of that can be incremental townhome style infill, others can be re-purposing our wildly overly generous arterial setbacks. Give people options and they will figure it out.
  9. CBBarnett

    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    I think you are forgetting about markets, supply and demand. If a semi-detached or row house doesn't make economic sense in Deer Run, it won't be built in Deer Run regardless of the zoning. But if it does make sense, let the market decide where and when this incremental intensification stuff...
  10. CBBarnett

    Urban Development and Proposals Discussion

    I see it completely the other way around - citywide rezoning to a higher base density gives individual land owners more land rights and less government intervention to restrict how many homes you have on your land is a conservative value, or at least it once was? More freedom for land owners is...
  11. CBBarnett

    Calgary | Green Line LRT | ?m | ?s | Calgary Transit

    I mean that's the whole problem - the cost of the project is because we aren't actually prioritizing transit. The only reason this costs so much and we need expropriation is that we want to maintain priority of car capacity along the corridor. Yes, on occasion a bus will get a head start by a...
  12. CBBarnett

    Calgary | Green Line LRT | ?m | ?s | Calgary Transit

    I can see some value as Route 3/301 is the busiest combo route by far in the city. Lots of improvements to do: Consolidate some bus stops and ensure they have actual priority (no bays or merging) Allow for all-door boarding and implement app scanning at backdoors. Repurpose lanes from general...
  13. CBBarnett

    Calgary | Glenmore Place | 20m | 6s | The Carlisle Group | Tarjan Group

    Not very pretty, and with a surprising anti-pedestrian location, but the speed and scale is notable. That’s what’s going to be needed on many of these scale projects, in all areas to meaningfully moderate rent increases.
  14. CBBarnett

    Calgary | Magna | 21m | 6s | Jayman | Integra Architecture

    The other part of this story is the construction costs - Calgary's density game bifurcated substantially since the East Village was kicking off. Market, for-sale condo concrete towers have been dead in the water for a long time, despite ongoing growth and demand. Currently it's only...
  15. CBBarnett

    Statscan numbers

    We might one-day pass Montreal proper, but Montreal is a far larger and more integrated urban region. It's less critical what the city population is v. the overall Montreal city-region of like 75 or 100 municipalities. We will not catch up to the Montreal region. Calgary no longer does an...

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