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Regional Planning & Growth

Time for Edmonton to choose the nuclear option: annex all land between the airport, hwy 21, hwy 60, and hwy 37, and create an industrial reserve land so large it will retain 90% of Edmonton region jobs in Edmonton. It will be the logistics, manufacturing, renewable energy, and storage hub of western Canada.

Yes, this includes pipeline alley and Bremner.
 
trevorhayden said:
Time for Edmonton to choose the nuclear option: annex all land between the airport, hwy 21, hwy 60, and hwy 37, and create an industrial reserve land so large it will retain 90% of Edmonton region jobs in Edmonton. It will be the logistics, manufacturing, renewable energy, and storage hub of western Canada.

Yes, this includes pipeline alley and Bremner.
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This would require tremendous support from the Provincial Government.

The current Provincial Government would more likely annex all of Edmonton south of the Henday and give it to Leduc county than allow Edmonton anywhere near the land of other municipalities.
 
As someone who's lived here for 7.5 years and is only vaguely familiar as to why Edmonton has not annexed most of the surrounding municipalities, can someone explain to me why doesn't the city do as such? Edmonton would be a much wealthier and strategic city if they could do that (with the exception of St. Albert as there are likely historic reasons why that would not be feasible).

Is it really because the Cons would hate to have Edmonton carry more voice and importance?
 
trevorhayden said:
Time for Edmonton to choose the nuclear option: annex all land between the airport, hwy 21, hwy 60, and hwy 37, and create an industrial reserve land so large it will retain 90% of Edmonton region jobs in Edmonton. It will be the logistics, manufacturing, renewable energy, and storage hub of western Canada.

Yes, this includes pipeline alley and Bremner.
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Surely you are aware that this isn't an actual viable solution. It would take decades and support from the annexed municipalities, which Edmonton would absolutely not receive.

The public consultation alone for a partial annexation in 2018 took 5 years. That was for rural land outside Beaumont and Leduc that directly borders the City.
 
Munanyo said:
As someone who's lived here for 7.5 years and is only vaguely familiar as to why Edmonton has not annexed most of the surrounding municipalities, can someone explain to me why doesn't the city do as such? Edmonton would be a much wealthier and strategic city if they could do that (with the exception of St. Albert as there are likely historic reasons why that would not be feasible).

Is it really because the Cons would hate to have Edmonton carry more voice and importance?
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erudyk_29 said:
This would require tremendous support from the Provincial Government.

The current Provincial Government would more likely annex all of Edmonton south of the Henday and give it to Leduc county than allow Edmonton anywhere near the land of other municipalities.
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Municipalities only exist because the MGA and the Province says they can, if the Province doesn't want something done, especially when it comes to annexations, it doesn't happen.

It's politically quite unpopular, most residents in other neighboring municipalities don't want it. A similar thing happened in the 90s when Toronto annexed North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, etc (this was almost entirely driven by the Province to my understanding who in the name of reducing "bureaucratic inefficiency" forced a merger) and it was an absolute mess and to a certain extent, remains a mess to this day.

I am a Sherwood Park resident and tbh would not mid being a part of Edmonton, particularly if it meant getting LRT in the next 100 years. It's just not happening though.
 
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I love how some Edmontonians continue to whale on the dead horse known as annexation while other cities seem to do just fine with their own metro areas (see: Vancouver and Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, etc or Calgary and Airdrie, Cochrane, Chestermere, etc.).
 
erudyk_29 said:
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Municipalities only exist because the MGA and the Province says they can, if the Province doesn't want something done, especially when it comes to annexations, it doesn't happen.

It's politically quite unpopular, most residents in other neighboring municipalities don't want it. A similar thing happened in the 90s when Toronto annexed North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, etc (this was almost entirely driven by the Province to my understanding who in the name of reducing "bureaucratic inefficiency" forced a merger) and it was an absolute mess and to a certain extent, remains a mess to this day.

I am a Sherwood Park resident and tbh would not mid being a part of Edmonton, particularly if it meant getting LRT in the next 100 years. It's just not happening though.
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Yes, that was a provincial move (I lived in Toronto for the creation of the megacity). The rhetoric was that the move was for 'efficiency', but the real effect was to swamp the lefty city of Toronto, which controlled all the large landowners downtown, with a new city that would be dominated by the more Conservative suburbs.

And if you look at it that way, the plan was largely successful with Mel Lastman as the first mayor, with a line of right-of-centre successors right through to Rob Ford and John Tory.

I bet if the province saw a way to swamp the left Edmonton City Council and keep it Conservative for the coming years, they'd be all on board with annexation.
 
The city already has a considerable amount of undeveloped land in the NE and SW all the way down to the airport.
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