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I'm fine with new developments further out beyond the Henday, but they should be built within 500m of an LRT station. If that means focusing new developments around exclusively Gorman and Ellerslie, fine. Just use the developer funds to 100% cover the needed extensions. This will allow for sprawl while ensuring expansion of the network to the airport without it being a financial burden. The city needs to operate transportation like a business.
 
Barnaby said:
I'm fine with new developments further out beyond the Henday, but they should be built within 500m of an LRT station. If that means focusing new developments around exclusively Gorman and Ellerslie, fine. Just use the developer funds to 100% cover the needed extensions. This will allow for sprawl while ensuring expansion of the network to the airport without it being a financial burden. The city needs to operate transportation like a business.
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You are going to hate Trumpeter, Starling HawksRidge and kinglet. Well beyond any services. In fact close to St Albert.
 
Airboy said:
You are going to hate Trumpeter, Starling HawksRidge and kinglet. Well beyond any services. In fact close to St Albert.
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Yeah, kids can't even ride their bikes safely from Trumpeter across the Henday to meet up with friends.

Not a good place to raise a family imo. But I grew up in Grovenor, so I'm used to having safe freedom as a kid.
 
Was listening to an interview with Knack about the continued need to raise taxes in the next budget cycle but not as much as we've seeen.

He pointed to the fact that Edmonton has grown so much south and west of the Henday that we are 4 fire halls short of being able to provide proper service to these new areas - that was just one example of the currently unaddressed costs to our growth (200,000 people in 4 years).
 
If Knack thinks voters in older area are eager to pay more taxes now so someone in those new areas can get infrastructure faster, he is really misreading the voters mood right now.
 
David A said:
If Knack thinks voters in older area are eager to pay more taxes now so someone in those new areas can get infrastructure faster, he is really misreading the voters mood right now.
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Oh he totally thinks voters are especially eager to pay more taxes.
NOTE: please don't read that as his serious thought.
 

Interesting quote below from the story would suggest at least in 2024 Edmonton was pretty far off target for infills if 75% of permits for new dwellings in the city were just in the Southwest.

"In 2024, the city issued just over 15,000 building permits for new dwelling units. More than 75 per cent of those permits were for areas of the city between 41st Avenue Southwest and Anthony Henday Drive, including neighbourhoods like The Orchards, Keswick and Chappelle."
 
BASE said:

Interesting quote below from the story would suggest at least in 2024 Edmonton was pretty far off target for infills if 75% of permits for new dwellings in the city were just in the Southwest.

"In 2024, the city issued just over 15,000 building permits for new dwelling units. More than 75 per cent of those permits were for areas of the city between 41st Avenue Southwest and Anthony Henday Drive, including neighbourhoods like The Orchards, Keswick and Chappelle."
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I mean yeah. The houses go where greenfield land is.
 
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