The City has created a common definition of what 'closed' really means on a 311 request, now it's a question of getting everyone to use it. #yyc#yyccc#calgary
@livewirecalgary You also don't get "notified" ever, even if you used the online system with email address. You have to check manually, which is stupid.
@livewirecalgary The "just go to Lindsay Park" reply is sadly typical of how the City of Calgary operates. They talk a big game about "complete communities" and densification and livability and sustainability, but then betray themelves with their actions.
In discussion forums relating to an Area Structure Plans a resident asked about there being no land zoned for a community recreation centre, especially given that the closest existing facilty is already over capacity despite recently having undergone a major expansion.
A city bureaucrat replied that the community in question was in the "catchment area" of two existing facilities, and that the second-closest one was deemed to be of sufficient capacity to handle the demand from the new development. Catchment Area...so...city planners think of people the same way they think of stormwater it seems. Anyways what they mean by that term is an area that is within a 15 minute commute...even if it is by car on a freeway! So...yeah that works :blobrollingeyes:
I particularly like how the Uni Prez keeps citing "Policy and Procedure" like it is Holy Writ. I write P&P professionally: sausage-making has nothin' on it. But evidently "following P&P" is the new version of "just following orders."
The press is always at pains to identify how many protesters/arrestees "aren't students." Those dastardly Outside Agitators are at it again, corrupting and misleading our naive young.
@robsonfletcher unrelated: I see a MEC snowfield tent in there (yellow and blue dome to the lower right). That’s a great tent and I still have the one my family bought in 1992.
"Using shields, batons and flashbang explosives, Calgary police officers forcibly removed a group of protesters Thursday night from an encampment set up on the University of Calgary campus."
Councillors say colleague Coun. Sean Chu is participating via camera online, but couldn't explain the lack of in-person attendance at Calgary's citywide rezoning public hearing. #yyc#calgary#yyccc
@msh@roger Take a look at the houses that are being replaced now. Smaller homes on large lots being razed to be replaced by behemoth houses. That's not preserving any neighbourhood character.
I am sure there will be some issues, but parking and traffic issues are less important than homelessness.
@Perrin49@roger not only that but more and more larger homes end up with boarders in the basement or even illegal suites. The house next door was once rented out to 4 young guys, each with their own vehicle, and it isn't even a big house.
In some neighbourhoods there are lots of larger homes with boarders or extended families with like 8+ people living there and 4 or 5 cars.
In a lot of cases rezoning is about acknowledging the current reality and enabling more appropriate ways to manage population density and affordability.
Calgarians' submissions to city council on the blanket-rezoning proposal have been published and more than a few folks seem to think this is the work of the World Economic Forum...
Example #1: "This city is now run by a mayor and councillors who are simply disgusting demons following WEF agenda"
"The current liberal government is being governed by principles of the world economic forum and the United Nations agenda 2030. This is communism and you are acting in a manner that Will destroy the city."
@Jonathanglick FWIW these 11 responses are among more than 5,000 (!!) submissions on the topic so I don't think they're too out of the range of expectation.
I don't really know if or why it's any greater here than elsewhere but I'd guess these things tend to build within a particular community and then become self-reinforcing, especially when repeated over and over in social circles & on social media.
People start to take it as fact because everyone around them believes it too.