So let me get this straight, they want to densify the city by replacing single detached homes with multiplex developments, leaving less room for trees, while at the same time they want control over trees in those single family homes that they want replaced with high density. 🙄.
Calgary is not losing its canopy because homeowners are cutting down their trees but there is less canopy because of shrinking lot sizes. City council wants both, high density and lots of trees.
Lot sizes aren’t necessarily shrinking; single family lots are being redeveloped with between 8 and 14 housing units, leaving not a single tree in place. March 2024 Council stated an objective “we need to preserve tree canopy”. In the meantime we are losing tree canopy faster than any other Canadian city. 🤬
Lots are shrinking, compare an older neighbourhood like Haysboro to a newer neighbourhood like New Brighton that has high density lots that are half the size. This contributes to less canopy. The multiplex rezoning issue also reduces canopy. Experts at the City of Calgary are more than happy to have developers wipe out more trees for more density but somehow think homeowners are reducing the canopy.
THEN it becomes they can tell you what it is in your garden. and not tomatoes. that's climate change. you'll need a license to grow your food. Got get em Yak. Calgary is lucky to have you. Too many communists in power I'd say.
From the outside, it seems one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing.
Some good comments below on negotiating density with trees. Maybe the Ciry’s game is to try extracting as much out of the potential lot owners for applications, appeals and legal stick handling.
Several new R1 and R2 development lots in Montgomery beg the question about lot coverage, with many monstrosity houses going up seemingly more than 45% coverage. How will the City reconcile their insatiable greed for more Taxable properties based on square footage with many of the existing trees if not all on most cases ending up being cut down?
The trend is allowing “California” style houses in a Prairie setting which look ridiculous. Can’t speak for other areas of the City, but in the case of Montgomery having had a well thought out ARP (Area Rezoning Plan) that considered integration of older style houses, nurtured under Mayor Al Duerr, all that apparently went by the wayside under Mayor Nenshi’s rule as bigger became better just like his waistline. Best not to speak of how incongruous this is given the NDP’s minimalist existence philosophy.
All’s fair when money comes into creasing sweaty, bourgeois palms, I guess, especially when others benefit without having to do anything for it based on others’ labour.
When I moved to Calgary in the early 1970’s, they told me this was a Real Estate town. I didn’t know what that meant, not having any skin in the game. Bar tables covered in beer glasses on top of beer-soaked terry cloth covers, “China Grove” mimicked by all the bar-bands blasting so loud you couldn’t have any conversations besides yelling “great” was all about any of us knew at the time. How were we to know the Bikers were buying 3 piece suits for all the lawyers that later developed into the established legal houses regarded today? It all came with not knowing anything about the City, with poor Administration and lack of foresight, for example selling off land to maximize housing development or compromising high speed downtown access like once destined McLeod Trail was supposed to be.
At that time, Calgary was a transient town, no one thought more than 2 years down the road. “Ya makes yer money and goes back” wherever it was you’d come from. The people who stayed in spite of, recognized we had clean air and water, a closeness to the Rockies others would grow to envy and a great place to raise kids.
Hopefully, we’ll be able to make some distinctions come election time and put some honest, forward thinking people in to replace the current slate of . . . Councillors.
The WEF "15 minute city" high density, concrete jungle urban ghetto infill program reduces the tree canopy. Don't let these ESG, DEI climate change, net zero zeolots get away with gaslighting Calgarians on planting more trees when they are doing the opposite. When the current city council is voted out, the new council must clean house and get rid of the net zero city planners and city dep't managers.
A neighbour just built a home down the street from me after tearing down an existing home. He also replaced the basement and was REQUIRED to BRING UP TO CODE the sewer pipe from the main pipe to his house. $60,000.00 dollars later, to dig up the road, put in the new and improved pipe and replace the road. THEN they were told WHAT KIND OF TREES they were REQUIRED to plant. I asked my neighbour WHO EXACTLY GAVE THEM THE POWER TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN PLANT? I think I got him thinking about all this nonsense!
Jeezus christ, 3mil to stop people from cutting down their own trees could buy rhe city a shitload of trees to install on city property, thereby increasing the green canopy. Without nazi style bylaws and snitch lines and ongoing costs of "enforcement". My mind is blown by how stupid those clowns are. Never thinking abt what they can do, just what they want to force others to do. Govt is grossly oversized on all levels and they have their hands so far up our asses they should be charged with rape. Sock it to them, they r a disgusting bunch of mentally and emotionally challenged tyrants... just like city council in kelowna.
Thank you, Sheldon! I think soon our "incredible" not-for-sale scientists will discover that marihuana will provide 3 x oxygen compared to other plants, so we all will be instructed to grow "weeds"
So let me get this straight, they want to densify the city by replacing single detached homes with multiplex developments, leaving less room for trees, while at the same time they want control over trees in those single family homes that they want replaced with high density. 🙄.
Calgary is not losing its canopy because homeowners are cutting down their trees but there is less canopy because of shrinking lot sizes. City council wants both, high density and lots of trees.
Kinda like selling you on installing solar panels while they simultaneously geoengineer to dim the sun 🤦🏻♀️
Lot sizes aren’t necessarily shrinking; single family lots are being redeveloped with between 8 and 14 housing units, leaving not a single tree in place. March 2024 Council stated an objective “we need to preserve tree canopy”. In the meantime we are losing tree canopy faster than any other Canadian city. 🤬
Lots are shrinking, compare an older neighbourhood like Haysboro to a newer neighbourhood like New Brighton that has high density lots that are half the size. This contributes to less canopy. The multiplex rezoning issue also reduces canopy. Experts at the City of Calgary are more than happy to have developers wipe out more trees for more density but somehow think homeowners are reducing the canopy.
THEN it becomes they can tell you what it is in your garden. and not tomatoes. that's climate change. you'll need a license to grow your food. Got get em Yak. Calgary is lucky to have you. Too many communists in power I'd say.
The only way to get back our freedoms from these knuckleheads is start cleaning up at the bottom. Not the top govt .
Start with our local municipal govts. Like mayors and city councilmen/women.
Mayors all have to attend buildeberg meetings which is equivalent to WEF .
They are programmed to do what they are doing.
Start with our locks.lets bring them all down
They've all taken far too much money from the climate NGOs.
I guess we need provincial legislation that limits municipal funding to provincial and property tax $ only.
It's really sad to realize how long it's taken us to realize we're governed largely by fools and fraudsters - present company excepted, of course 😉.
From the outside, it seems one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing.
Some good comments below on negotiating density with trees. Maybe the Ciry’s game is to try extracting as much out of the potential lot owners for applications, appeals and legal stick handling.
Several new R1 and R2 development lots in Montgomery beg the question about lot coverage, with many monstrosity houses going up seemingly more than 45% coverage. How will the City reconcile their insatiable greed for more Taxable properties based on square footage with many of the existing trees if not all on most cases ending up being cut down?
The trend is allowing “California” style houses in a Prairie setting which look ridiculous. Can’t speak for other areas of the City, but in the case of Montgomery having had a well thought out ARP (Area Rezoning Plan) that considered integration of older style houses, nurtured under Mayor Al Duerr, all that apparently went by the wayside under Mayor Nenshi’s rule as bigger became better just like his waistline. Best not to speak of how incongruous this is given the NDP’s minimalist existence philosophy.
All’s fair when money comes into creasing sweaty, bourgeois palms, I guess, especially when others benefit without having to do anything for it based on others’ labour.
Same happening in Bowness. Zoning flies in the face of ARP guidelines, and completely ignores everything in the ARP 🤬
Hi Ruth,
When I moved to Calgary in the early 1970’s, they told me this was a Real Estate town. I didn’t know what that meant, not having any skin in the game. Bar tables covered in beer glasses on top of beer-soaked terry cloth covers, “China Grove” mimicked by all the bar-bands blasting so loud you couldn’t have any conversations besides yelling “great” was all about any of us knew at the time. How were we to know the Bikers were buying 3 piece suits for all the lawyers that later developed into the established legal houses regarded today? It all came with not knowing anything about the City, with poor Administration and lack of foresight, for example selling off land to maximize housing development or compromising high speed downtown access like once destined McLeod Trail was supposed to be.
At that time, Calgary was a transient town, no one thought more than 2 years down the road. “Ya makes yer money and goes back” wherever it was you’d come from. The people who stayed in spite of, recognized we had clean air and water, a closeness to the Rockies others would grow to envy and a great place to raise kids.
Hopefully, we’ll be able to make some distinctions come election time and put some honest, forward thinking people in to replace the current slate of . . . Councillors.
The WEF "15 minute city" high density, concrete jungle urban ghetto infill program reduces the tree canopy. Don't let these ESG, DEI climate change, net zero zeolots get away with gaslighting Calgarians on planting more trees when they are doing the opposite. When the current city council is voted out, the new council must clean house and get rid of the net zero city planners and city dep't managers.
Learn from Toronto… they’ve already put most of this bullshit in place here 🙄
Vote these WEFFER efffers out... that is step one..... because we KNOW this is coming to a city near you.....
A neighbour just built a home down the street from me after tearing down an existing home. He also replaced the basement and was REQUIRED to BRING UP TO CODE the sewer pipe from the main pipe to his house. $60,000.00 dollars later, to dig up the road, put in the new and improved pipe and replace the road. THEN they were told WHAT KIND OF TREES they were REQUIRED to plant. I asked my neighbour WHO EXACTLY GAVE THEM THE POWER TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN PLANT? I think I got him thinking about all this nonsense!
Jeezus christ, 3mil to stop people from cutting down their own trees could buy rhe city a shitload of trees to install on city property, thereby increasing the green canopy. Without nazi style bylaws and snitch lines and ongoing costs of "enforcement". My mind is blown by how stupid those clowns are. Never thinking abt what they can do, just what they want to force others to do. Govt is grossly oversized on all levels and they have their hands so far up our asses they should be charged with rape. Sock it to them, they r a disgusting bunch of mentally and emotionally challenged tyrants... just like city council in kelowna.
They want people to conserve water and reduce usage and well trees need water, also known as an oxymoron. More doctrine from the elites and the Mr. globals top down, I see this as well out east : https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/06/cities-urban-trees-climate-change/ .
Thank you, Sheldon! I think soon our "incredible" not-for-sale scientists will discover that marihuana will provide 3 x oxygen compared to other plants, so we all will be instructed to grow "weeds"