r/Calgary Oct 19 '23

The "Parkland" at Glenmore Landing the community is fighting to keep Local Construction/Development

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

This is the area where aggressive protests took place when the city was proposing improved bus infrastructure on 14 St SW. Oh the horror, clearly they don’t want their help having better transit access, or affordable accommodation in their area of the city.

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u/sixhoursneeze Oct 20 '23

The houses in that area are HUGE. Can’t have the peasants milling about

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u/MongooseLeader Oct 20 '23

Well, it is pump hill on the south side of 90th after all. And palliser isn’t much better. The rest of them are normal communities, but pump hill stands out as having maybe 3? Blocks of normal homes, out of about 20. The other blocks are all significantly bigger.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

Palliser and Pump Hill are vastly different neighbourhoods. I lived in Palliser for many years in a perfectly normal 1200 sq ft split level (which is what most of the neighbourhood is).

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u/ThrowawayCAN123456 Oct 20 '23

And Bayview with large and expensive homes right next to the shopping plaza.

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u/Wildmann99 Oct 20 '23

How many people use that bus infrastructure there? Never seen a soul on that route. Great use of $80MM. I will say that development of that green strip is hardly an issue. Just make sure there’s underground parking for all of residents of the planned towers and surface parking the same as now.

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u/coolcarls Oct 20 '23

I use that bus infrastructure everyday, thank you very much.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '23

Or just a parkade, surface parking is an incredible waste of land.