AJX
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Last year the census came out on July 20th. Any time now, and any last guesses?
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Mountain Man
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1 270 000 is my guess
darwink
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Calgary and Edmonton grew up without local food systems for the most part - we've had the railway forever. I read at the Revelstoke museum that until the dams flooded the land, much of Calgary's 'local' vegetables were from the valley south of Revelstoke. I don't see any need to protect agricultural land beyond what can be accomplished through the regional bodies, control of water, and the South Saskatchewan regional plan.
Now, the Wildrose played significant footsie with the development industry and land owners about eliminating those constraints back in their day, so we shall see where a possible future government would go. Usually since it would incentivize jurisdiction shopping to the Nth degree all the small urban municipalities would fight it as well. Calgary would do well to not push further than those communities can support (the 8 unit per acre standard for connecting incremental development to the water system, while low for urban purposes does force development to not sprawl endlessly).
Now, the Wildrose played significant footsie with the development industry and land owners about eliminating those constraints back in their day, so we shall see where a possible future government would go. Usually since it would incentivize jurisdiction shopping to the Nth degree all the small urban municipalities would fight it as well. Calgary would do well to not push further than those communities can support (the 8 unit per acre standard for connecting incremental development to the water system, while low for urban purposes does force development to not sprawl endlessly).
I'm going to say 1,261,518
Spring2008
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Wow 1,267,344, more than I thought!
Beltline sees perhaps its biggest single year growth ever up 1,668 residents to 24,887.
http://www.calgary.ca/CA/city-clerk...us2018/Civic_Census_-_at_a_glance_booklet.PDF
Beltline sees perhaps its biggest single year growth ever up 1,668 residents to 24,887.
http://www.calgary.ca/CA/city-clerk...us2018/Civic_Census_-_at_a_glance_booklet.PDF
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UrbanWarrior
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That is fantastic news. A growth of 21 000 really puts us back on track.
Spring2008
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Mountain Man
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Damn, my guess was actually quite close!
Does this make the Beltline our most populous neighbourhood yet?
Does this make the Beltline our most populous neighbourhood yet?
Spring2008
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Excellent numbers. The Beltline pushing 25K! Won't be long before it's #1 in the city.
Yep. With only 1,000 people difference, it's just a matter of how long before it overtakes Panorama. I'm going to say 2020 census, it'll be the most populous.
MichaelS
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What would classify as an "inactive unit"? A condemned building or something slated for demolition?
gsunnyg
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Wow all those numbers really look good, especially seeing vacancy going down, the vacancy rate was a little scary last year. Heres to 25-30k more people next year! which is quite achievable I think if oil prices stay around this point and if we can knock down another 1% off the unemployment rate by next April. I think other than the economy improving, whats helping Calgary's healthy population growth is the fast tracked PR system for immigrants and the considerable amount of affordability when compared to Vancouver or Toronto.
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I'm guessing it must be, I can't think of any other explanation.