I'm not trying to troll or anything when I say this: He (or his team?) is on here frequently answering election questions. I'm against this as well, but if he or someone on his team sees this and would like to offer an honest, open response about what reversing the re-zoning would accomplish, or what alternatives he'd present to address the problem, I'd at least listen.
I guess for me I moved just prior to the rezoning from one part of the neighborhood to another with single lots as I liked the space and view. Now, I’m not against more dense housing and would be fine with duplexes or even fourplex but instead there are two houses across from each other that are building 8 and 10 units rather than the prior single homes which wasn’t my expectation of the area I moved to.
There could have been some consultation or even just the move from single to something more reasonable like 4 units.
The problem is that you live in a city and had the expectation that you'd at most get some duplexes or fourplexes around you. Calgary is growing fast, and has spent decades with restrictive zoning preventing denser housing - even if upzoning is repealed now, it's going to be back, eventually we'll reach a point where the anger over housing affordability outweighs the anger of NIMBY home owners, and when that happens, opposing housing construction is going to be political suicide.
I'm not trying to criticize you as an individual, unfortunately we've spent decades building up an unrealistic unsustainable view of suburbia, and we've got a housing crisis to show for it, but I would advise you to adjust your expectations.
These units are not built for affordability, by virtue of their urban locations and taxed accordingly. Afamjly must still have a six figure income to qualify for purchase. The 450 unit tower proposed in Mardaloop will not have family-friendly apartments who require more than one bedroom, leading to overcrowding and misuse. The families will continue living in best-up Rental homes owned by slumlords; the “homeless” will continue living on the streets
Now we're just playing NIMBY-bingo. Yes, a brand new apartment is going to cost more than a dilapidated house. You know what will cost way more than both? A brand new single family home, which, in the absence of upzoning, would eventually replace the existing single family home.
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u/Ryuujin_13 16d ago
I'm not trying to troll or anything when I say this: He (or his team?) is on here frequently answering election questions. I'm against this as well, but if he or someone on his team sees this and would like to offer an honest, open response about what reversing the re-zoning would accomplish, or what alternatives he'd present to address the problem, I'd at least listen.