HomeSpace to develop two Calgary emergency housing sites Two emergency housing sites; one near Whitehorn LRT and one near Fish Creek LRT have had HomeSpace selected as the group; they plan to put 52 three-bedroom townhouses on each site as transitional housing for families in need.

If you know who did something, you don't need to be suspicious, do you? 😉

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My if-I-ran-the-city-as-a-dictator idea is a street frontage vacancy tax, at least in pedestrian-oriented areas. I don't know how much it would have to be to get REITs to lower rents, but even if they held steady, it could be a nice little pot of revenue (devote it to pedestrian realm...

This is one location where a ped overpass actually makes a great deal of sense -- all of the surrounding residential lands are already 3-5m above the road level. Looked at the air photos; to me it seems like JLB was really intended as a north/south route. 1957: Before any construction in the...

Reminder that there is already a busy-during-events pedestrian crossing of both Macleod and the LRT at grade, at the south end of Erlton station. It's staffed during Stampede, but I've never seen an operational problem with it in the few dozen times I've crossed there during Stampede.

Don't worry, the Oilers will sign him. But in all seriousness, the assuming that this is true, the Flames really screwed up here. Spot the difference: (These are three of the other four players it seems; the fifth isn't in the NHL.) If -- as it appears -- Dubé's "mental health" break is...

Just to make it interesting, I'll take 85K (I think 80K is the highest anyone has gone so far.)

Airport staff taking transit is by far a stronger case for transit than for visitors. Multiply 24,000 (a high number -- plenty of airport workers don't work in the terminal itself) by 250 work days a year and 2 trips a day (to and from work) and you have 12 million, which is not that...

I've posted on here in favour of land value taxes before, but I crunched the numbers last fall, and changed my mind. (Unfortunately, a poorly timed Excel crash lost all of my data.) At the risk of derailing this into a discussion about urban development: A property is two things; a building and...

Last two seasons are a good indicator of the teams potential, which is probably 3 home playoff games at best. Keep Weegar and Backlund, you can't trade Huberdeau and Kadri, and the rest of the roster should be whoever comes up from the Wranglers. Few teams have as good a chance to do a full...

I disagree. Bad drivers are a symptom of the problem, but trying to solve it at that level is doomed to failure. "All we need to do to fix this is for every single one of a million different people to each individually increase their skill and effort just because it's the right thing to do" is a...

As a side note, I recall the traditional 50/50 capital funding ratio between roads and transit included the Crowchild Trail freeway interchanges in the "transit" side of the funding pie since they were being done in conjunction with the LRT extension.

I don't think the specific buzzword TOD existed until the mid 1990s (a 3 second search seems to credit Calthorpe in 1993). But the key principles existed. From 1995: And there's been a formal TOD policy for about 20 years now:

It's a lovely design; excited to see it! Sad to say goodbye to my crayon plan for a gondola between Westbrook and the U of C, but this site was a perfect spot for straight-line connections across the Bow and up to FMC.

It's remarkable that you can build apartments on a parcel that literally borders one with a train station and still be able to have the front door be a 750m walk from the station platform. The KenTen (10th St/Memorial Dr, formerly home to Julio's Barrio) is closer... to the Kerby LRT station...

It's not a bad article about the public realm, but my god what terrible framing. But let me take on some of the hypothetical questions about the office conversions. And just for fun, let me also answer these same questions for the thousands of people who are moving into Redstone, a reasonably...

I was having a look at MAX station walkable catchment areas and estimating the 2021 population within 400m and 800m of each stop; here's the stops on the Yellow Line: And here's selected stops on all of the lines, with LRT stations outlined and the line-level average on the right: The...

And then the final statistics: Here's the shares by the four measures (in order: DU raw density, DU buffered density, population raw density, population buffered density) And the final statistic of the share of population in high density conditions as well as the classic population-weighted...

And here's some cities to compare with us (all the same scale): Winnipeg Edmonton Ottawa Vancouver Montreal Toronto