News   Apr 03, 2020
 9.7K     3 
News   Apr 02, 2020
 10K     0 
News   Apr 02, 2020
 3.7K     0 

Miscellaneous

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)

View attachment 716378
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.
 
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.

View attachment 716445View attachment 716446
Makes sense. I misinterpreted the PU zoning in the southern end of the park to be parking.
 
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.

View attachment 716445View attachment 716446
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?
 
Makes sense. I misinterpreted the PU zoning in the southern end of the park to be parking.
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).

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?
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).
 
This makes me smile! One of the city's biggest eyesores.....
That's former eyesore to you, sir. Edmonton has lost one of her finest... shopping cart holding facilities.

1771538258767.png
 
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.
4021253B-3FBC-4CB3-81AE-76E25B5F8208.jpeg
9EBBF751-DF57-484B-A0D6-FABA266E8A66.jpeg
 
Last edited:
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.
 

Back
Top