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policyenthusiast said:
The Wedgewood site (slated to be developed by an indigenous affordable housing provider) was halted by a Court of Kings Bench resolution, and there was quite a showing from residents against the sale of this site yesterday.

The sale was ultimately approved by Council, 9-4. This is one of the times I agree with the residents opposing the sale. Wedgewood has only the one park, which includes baseball diamonds, soccer, and a skating rink. That's being paved for the 60-unit Treaty 8 build. The neighborhood is a single-exfil area, and has no regular bus service. A disappointing failure to protect our urban green space, and a fundamentally lacking location for an affordable housing site.

Quite a loss for the west end.
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Seems pretty clear that the majority of the park space is remaining untouched, including everything around the community league and land to the south. From what I can tell, they are losing one soccer field but the ball diamond and second soccer field are safe. Unclear where the skating rink is. Not saying it was the right decision, but the opposition made it sound like there would be no park space left at all if the sale went forward.
www.ctvnews.ca

Council gives green light a 2nd time around for Wedgewood Park housing development in animated public hearing

City council has voted against a proposal to look at alternative locations for affordable housing in a west Edmonton community after a tense public hearing on Wednesday, which was spurred by a judicial review.
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SarcasticMarmot said:
Seems pretty clear that the majority of the park space is remaining untouched, including everything around the community league and land to the south. From what I can tell, they are losing one soccer field but the ball diamond and second soccer field are safe. Unclear where the skating rink is. Not saying it was the right decision, but the opposition made it sound like there would be no park space left at all if the sale went forward.
www.ctvnews.ca

Council gives green light a 2nd time around for Wedgewood Park housing development in animated public hearing

City council has voted against a proposal to look at alternative locations for affordable housing in a west Edmonton community after a tense public hearing on Wednesday, which was spurred by a judicial review.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca

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That, and there's a lot of park space just outside the neighborhood's technical boundaries.
 
thommyjo said:
Calgary has some crap being built for sure. They also have some nicer projects like these:

(The top one is what I wish mercury and cobalt had been more like)

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This one is beautiful and more of what I wish we'd see. It should be the minimum standard for projects like Westrich's 106 ST or 108 ST. It's not fundamentally different than either project, but a step up in design. That's not to pick on them, those projects aren't the worst, but they're the first example that comes to mind.
 
SarcasticMarmot said:
Seems pretty clear that the majority of the park space is remaining untouched, including everything around the community league and land to the south. From what I can tell, they are losing one soccer field but the ball diamond and second soccer field are safe. Unclear where the skating rink is. Not saying it was the right decision, but the opposition made it sound like there would be no park space left at all if the sale went forward.
www.ctvnews.ca

Council gives green light a 2nd time around for Wedgewood Park housing development in animated public hearing

City council has voted against a proposal to look at alternative locations for affordable housing in a west Edmonton community after a tense public hearing on Wednesday, which was spurred by a judicial review.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca

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Makes sense. I misinterpreted the PU zoning in the southern end of the park to be parking.
 
SarcasticMarmot said:
Seems pretty clear that the majority of the park space is remaining untouched, including everything around the community league and land to the south. From what I can tell, they are losing one soccer field but the ball diamond and second soccer field are safe. Unclear where the skating rink is. Not saying it was the right decision, but the opposition made it sound like there would be no park space left at all if the sale went forward.
www.ctvnews.ca

Council gives green light a 2nd time around for Wedgewood Park housing development in animated public hearing

City council has voted against a proposal to look at alternative locations for affordable housing in a west Edmonton community after a tense public hearing on Wednesday, which was spurred by a judicial review.
www.ctvnews.ca www.ctvnews.ca

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What I don’t understand on these projects is the priority being “evenly dispersing” these sorts of builds instead of aligning them with the plethora of other goals we have around sustainability, active transportation, 15min communities, and nodes.

Stony plain road needs 15 midrises to be built and has a 3 billion dollar train about to service it and a dozen major employment and medical hubs. How is that not a better location? Again, I get the equity lens of not concentrating poverty. And I certainly don’t care about exaggerated nimby claims that are veiled racism/classism. But is this the right place? 20% of most Canadians’ spending is transportation. Is car dependent affordable housing actually affordable?
 
policyenthusiast said:
Makes sense. I misinterpreted the PU zoning in the southern end of the park to be parking.
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I believe it's actually a dry pond area for heavy rainfall events (hence the weird civil grading and why it can't be used for sports fields).

thommyjo said:
What I don’t understand on these projects is the priority being “evenly dispersing” these sorts of builds instead of aligning them with the plethora of other goals we have around sustainability, active transportation, 15min communities, and nodes.

is this the right place? 20% of most Canadians’ spending is transportation. Is car dependent affordable housing actually affordable?
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Agreed. Seems like a really odd choice for this type of project, since Wedgewood is one of the least walkable and most car dependent neighbourhoods within the Henday. At least there's a nearby grocery store and bus stop nearby, but basically nothing else, including assumedly the services the residents may want to access (healthcare, social services, recreation centres, post secondaries, etc).
 
Another one bites the dust. Big fire at the abandoned Iginla Law building this morning. Apologies for the crap photos but it was too cold to open the balcony door to get some clarity. Multiple fire trucks on scene, firefighters in full gear. I'm assuming they evacuated the apartment building next door.
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Yup. I was surprised to see nothing on the news, even just in terms of the traffic impacts, which weren't insignificant, given they closed 103 St access to 97 Ave, and obviously a big chunk of 97 Ave. They're now down to *only* 3-4 firetrucks, as far as I can see.
 
Road still closed, several fire trucks still there, smoke still billowing as of 8:35 AM.
 
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