Yes, I have posted a few disparaging comments on the quality of ideas of the opposition to allowing some townhouse development to creep into the formerly untouchable areas. The Calgary R1 communities, those places of such world renowned character, that tourists flock from medieval European cities to tour the masterpiece of community design where the bungalows were built on grid streets in 1959 with one bathroom for the expanding boomer family to share, and mighty eight foot ceilings covered in asbestos blessed drywall compound remain standing to this day, historic you may call these homes, irreplaceable character even. And lots of parking on city streets, so building garages to house cars, despite enjoying 50 feet of laneway frontage, was not needed. A lot of traffic these days to the website, but not comments, almost as much traffic as building townhouses may create in the precious enclaves of detachedness and empty streets.
I guess most RCG revolutionaries visit here, thanks google, then cringe, and flee to more pleasant sites, like Facebook, or Nextdoor, where likeminded gatekeeper types plot strategy against the hated mayor and her so called hateful 8 group of progressives. The most recent delay tactic to host plebiscite at the end of 2025 has failed, so it is actually looking fairly positive now that the April 22 vote passes to enable the evil profiteers among us to plan and build some townhouses, in a somewhat less risky marketplace. My greatest disappointment is the conservative slate, how anti business and pro detached housing they are. Why can my supposed allies on the right not reconcile with the need for some townhouses? Why are their ideas on supply and built forms so antiquated and inadequate. These are the unsolved mysteries lost among the politics of the RCG debate.
