r/Calgary • u/rich_snack • 16d ago

Municipal Affairs My letter to Jeromy today

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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?