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Regional Planning & Growth

trevorhayden said:
Another risk is the opposite direction: the UCP forcibly break up Edmonton and Calgary into a dozen mini cities. That would be even scarier.
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Personally, I'm excited for the Old Town Beverly separatist movement.

VIVA LA REVOLUTION! A STRONG INDEPENDENT AND SOVEREIGN BEVERLY SHALL RISE AGAIN! WE HAVEN'T FORGOT ABOUT OUR BRIDGE WE WERE PROMISED!!!
 
policyenthusiast said:
It's more about regional planning than it is about the availability of land.
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It WAS about regional planning time for the city to get serious about industrial development. Some industries need access to public transportation as noted on Global news on Tuesday something the city can provide especially if they extend the Capital line NE and/or SW.
 
Horse Hill and the area up to the airport should be all or mostly industrial, or left ag imo. Time to stop spreading more and more suburbs down south. Shift residential growth to at least 50% or greater in mature areas.

Could also open up opportunities to relocate industrial activity from the Southeastern Industrial Districts to make way for TOD's at the Strathcona Junction (where the HSR / regional rail is most likely terminating) and Davies.
 
Like I said, there is now a rural planning void. Edmonton must act fast to fill that void with annexation. With a much higher proportion of the regional population and new ZBL allowing so much more, Edmonton is much stronger now than it was when CRB/EMRB was founded. Regional towns will learn fast it needed Edmonton much more than Edmonton needed them.
 
policyenthusiast said:
Wow, they collapsed fast. I assumed Knack was right in calling the changes a death knell, but I didn't think it would happen immediately.
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I emailed them to ask if their documents and ArcGis databases will be archived somewhere. There's a treasure trove of info that'd be horrible to lose.
 
policyenthusiast said:
I'm doing the same - I've seldom needed these maps for work but re-making them would be a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.
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This is what they told me:
"We agree that EMRB records have value, and we are currently finalizing a proposal that will go to the Board next month to confirm an official custodian of records, including a transitional web landing page where a number of records/data sources like ArcGIS will continue to be accessible to the public. We are also committed to donating additional physical records/archives to the Provincial Archives of Alberta, where a number of older/historic records related to the CRB/EMRB are held.

Our next Board meeting is scheduled for February 21, and will be livestreamed here"
 
CplKlinger said:
This is what they told me:
"We agree that EMRB records have value, and we are currently finalizing a proposal that will go to the Board next month to confirm an official custodian of records, including a transitional web landing page where a number of records/data sources like ArcGIS will continue to be accessible to the public. We are also committed to donating additional physical records/archives to the Provincial Archives of Alberta, where a number of older/historic records related to the CRB/EMRB are held.

Our next Board meeting is scheduled for February 21, and will be livestreamed here"
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You're a gem, thanks for sharing.
 
trevorhayden said:
Another risk is the opposite direction: the UCP forcibly break up Edmonton and Calgary into a dozen mini cities. That would be even scarier.
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I suppose anything is possible, but this seems like catastrophizing to me. This could be more likely if there was a recent large annexation or amalgamation of various established cities with their own identities, but almost all of the growth in Edmonton and Calgary has been organic for decades (ie. building in previously undeveloped areas).
 
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