There’s going to be some NIMBYs in any community but I think the concerns for the community has mainly been about parking and developers build below the minimum because of a “primary transit network” For parking, this development actually provides an amount above the bylaw and I think...

New Proposal on 19th St NW between 1st and 2nd Ave. Just south of the 19+2 development (same developer, ECLiving) and north of the proposed 118/119 19th by RNDSQR. Across from the Made by Marcus. Can’t find the zoning application on DMAPs but it’s LOC2024-0183. 24m maximum height, 101 units...

In today's day and age there's literally no excuse.. one can plug locations into Google Map with live traffic data, to see how long your commute is and how close it is to certain amenities. It's also possible to type in other times and it uses historical traffic data to estimate how long it'll...

1. Like how the two lines cross the CP tracks now? Small tunnel for the CP track or elevated. 2. Congestion for trains? or cars? I mean there is Centre, 1st, 3rd, 4th street that cars can take, I don't see how a reduction in a few lanes on one of the the many streets will meaningfully degrade...

This is how long this has taken... this is on their project design page still, building a street that integrates with a non-existent market. Market Street - Connection to the past The Market Street is a multi-purpose "street" that is designed as a flexible space to integrate the plaza with Eau...

That would be the most ideal, but I doubt the city's housing corp has that risk appetite to undertake the demolition/rebuild of the site. Few developers are that ambitious either to buy the remaining lots to build what's possible, just ask the numerous 5+1 wood frame that we see on high...

I hear this future proofing argument a lot and I think it partially comes from 7th ave not being tunneled. Edmonton chose to tunnel the central city portion, and sure they future proofed, but it cost them significant transit expansion and arguably the tunneling wasn't even necessary. This is...

The decisions on this project seems so misaligned. They made it low-floor, which should lower infrastructure cost and make the stations smaller/more integrated with the street. Then they decide to tunnel the downtown? Cities are not building overground subways, but this isn't a subway, it's a...

"The City of Calgary is in the preliminary stages of investigating potential plans for the rest of the site," read the statement. The city undertakes massive changes to housing reforms in the name of the housing crisis, yet their internal departments are only in the preliminary stages of...

To be fair I think it is cleaned on occasion. Was there on Canada Day and looked out at some points and don't remember it being dirty.

Not a direct study on Calgary but many of these points apply across North America. The summary starting from page 9 gives a really good overview. This site/study comes from a group of NYU researchers https://transitcosts.com/executive_summary/ The main drivers are: Stations and construction: We...

For those that lived here for a while, has Deerfoot's road quality always been so bad? Drove from downtown to Seton and there were so many potholes (hard to judge which ones are small enough to glide over and which ones are too big) and was very uncomfortable because of how uneven the roads are...

Is the delay related the to Green Line work happening next door? Doesn't make sense to put stones down only to have to remove them a few months later.

Ah, that makes sense. I guess ECLiving just haven't updated that section in years.

The last DP approved for this site was DP2022-07331 approved in January 2024 for a: A New: Fitness Centre, Retail and Consumer Service (1 building); 4-storeys (17 metres) in height; and approximately 1,700 square metres in size. The current Land Use District allows for this type of development...

Is that the final colour of the glass? Or is there some film on it to protect it during construction? The glass seems a lot more green than the renders, more like condos built 15 years ago.

It's all about incentives, pricing and economics works! Vancouver has high water usage because many homes there are not metered, only 6% were metered in 2019. They have many more older homes (regulation and costs really minimize infills there) which won't get metered for 30 years according to...

But if they spend so much money doing underground and have nothing left for the Centre N and Seton extensions for 20 years, is it even worth doing the line?

The challenge with relying on 2016 analysis is that Calgary was just hit with an oil price crisis. Population growth was fairly muted from 2016-2021, which has skyrocketed in the last few years and the SE area has pretty high suburban density, with stacked townhomes and condos. The deep SE areas...

I thought this may be counteracted by the fact household sizes are smaller (people having less children and slower family formation) but that doesn't seem to be the case, with household size steady at 2.6 for 20 years. The change in housing style, and more apartments would definitely reduce...