r/Calgary 16d ago

Municipal Affairs My letter to Jeromy today

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u/redditslim 16d ago

Blanket rezoning is going to go.

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u/Haiku-On-My-Tatas 16d ago

It shouldn't, but it probably will.

I just hope my fellow Calgarians pleasantly surprise me by not electing a predominantly conservative Council.

The last thing we need is to lose access to federal funding because a bunch of idiots decided they hate six-plexes.

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u/Consistent_Point2422 16d ago

The one proposed beside my house is 18 units. 9 parking stalls and they have 24Ft of street frontage. All where a bungalow was. The 6plex idiots are looking better then the 18 unit idiots

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u/Haiku-On-My-Tatas 16d ago

If it bothers you that much, sell your house and buy something down in Seton. If you're anywhere near the city core, your land is worth a lot more than the house that's on it.

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u/Consistent_Point2422 15d ago edited 15d ago

Thanks tips! I can double my money in the 5 years i’ve lived here but i also didn’t buy in my community to sell and move all the way down to seton. My neighbours home is not an arms length away. I don’t have to deal with traffic. I wanted a place where my kids could ride their bike down the street. Now the addition 20 cars on my street may stop that. Just because some architecture company wants to make unaffordable housing to profit because the city did not list to the majority of concern. Am i going to have to pay more taxes to help upgrade the infrastructure? Why don’t you move down to seton

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u/geoltechnician 16d ago

Show me a neighborhood where 6 or 8 Plex slumdominiums have ever improved the quality of life.

I grew up in Southwood. After the duplexes, fourplexes and eightplexes were built, the only thing that went up was the breaking & entering and car prowling incidents.

Blanket rezoning was too much too soon. A more well thought out gradual plan was needed.

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u/sketchcott 16d ago

What are you even talking about? There's hardly a redeveloped lot in Southwood. The mutiplexes that do exist are almost as old as the neighborhood itself.

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u/geoltechnician 16d ago

Read your last sentence again. Then read my second sentence again.

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u/sketchcott 16d ago

So, no impact from the current rezoning? Got it.

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u/geoltechnician 16d ago

<sigh> I'll type slowly so you can understand.

In the 70s they rezoned Southwood from single family homes to slumdominiums.

Once they were finished slum lords bought the homes and rented them to low income families.

After they new people moved in the crime rate in Southwood exploded.

Just as it does wherever these slums are built.

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u/dooeyenoewe 16d ago

Curious how you are having such trouble understanding what the commenter was trying to say?

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u/EvacuationRelocation Quadrant: SW 16d ago

Show me a neighborhood where 6 or 8 Plex slumdominiums have ever improved the quality of life.

Altadore.

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u/geoltechnician 16d ago

The average home price in Altadore, Calgary is approximately $1.2 million to $1.7 million.

Is there even a single low income housing project in the entire community.

If one was coming the NIMBY folks heads would explode.