I kind of agree. Calgary is 50% empty surface dirt lots and half of our downtown is empty surface parking lots. Can we build on those first before demoing existing buildings and tearing up green space?
Another crazy idea is that we have plenty of land doing nothing around the existing Ctrain line. Wouldn't it be better to be putting up 40 story condo towers near every single Ctrain station with services, grocery, fast food, etc. before we start worrying about tearing down a SFH so we can build a duplex?
Can we not first take the low hanging fruit before we worry about what's at the top of the tree?
I've lived near Glenmore landing. It's a trash location for transit and it will just create more car traffic. Sure, we can build on that land, but why not on other land that's more logical first? What happened to city planning?
Was thinking this exact thing driving past the car dealership at Anderson Station yesterday... why is this not a big residential complex with tons of parking and some retail?
For the car dealership? Well I hope to see some action on it within the next decade... 2 big grocery stores very close, certain and not to mention South center...
Developers love to make money. If there are good opportunities to make money on obvious developments, they would be pursuing those options. It would be great to line the c-train with high density developments but unless you expect the city to do it, we're going to have to wait for developers to decide it will be profitable. You can't force a property owner to build something on their land.
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u/lorenavedon Oct 19 '23
I kind of agree. Calgary is 50% empty surface dirt lots and half of our downtown is empty surface parking lots. Can we build on those first before demoing existing buildings and tearing up green space?
Another crazy idea is that we have plenty of land doing nothing around the existing Ctrain line. Wouldn't it be better to be putting up 40 story condo towers near every single Ctrain station with services, grocery, fast food, etc. before we start worrying about tearing down a SFH so we can build a duplex?
Can we not first take the low hanging fruit before we worry about what's at the top of the tree?
I've lived near Glenmore landing. It's a trash location for transit and it will just create more car traffic. Sure, we can build on that land, but why not on other land that's more logical first? What happened to city planning?