Nathaniel Schmidt @N88TE
Criminal Defence Lawyer. Musician. Advocating for biodiversity and equitable cities. Probably looking for my keys and/or wallet. Joined February 2011-
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When faced with a difficult decision as a leader, I would ask myself one question. Will this make life better for the future generations? That was my North Star. Be better ancestors.
Everyone for rezoning is saying "This won't solve our problems on its own" and lots of people are interpreting that as "it won't work". The reality is, that it is will HELP affordability, especially in conjunction with the rest of the housing strategy. #yyccc #rezoning
You are a young professional family moving to Calgary specifically to buy a rowhouse style 3 bedroom home in which to raise your children. Would you be able to find one right now? Questionable. (nobody is eliminating a single home on a lot here folks)
You are a young professional family moving to Calgary specifically to buy a rowhouse style 3 bedroom home in which to raise your children. Would you be able to find one right now? Questionable. (nobody is eliminating a single home on a lot here folks)
@monikafurtado It is the "land use bylaw". Anyone has the opportunity to assemble lots at any point. Rezoning for housing doesn't change that. The bylaw is written to be flexible for a # of outcomes. Under R-CG, you could assemble 3 lots and put a single family house on it. Lots of options!
Single family home owner supports upzoning in Calgary! Thinks it will improve our city in numerous ways! Great for the health of our citizens! People will have places to live!
@yyc_bob @N88TE @noelkeough @yycplan I believe I've heard that the city is engaged on some of that predictive modeling work currently, but can't remember the details. Important piece of growth is efficiency. We have substantial water loss per km of water pipe - better to minimize growth and repair existing infra.
Neighbours are out door knocking to try to stop the permit for a row house development on the block next to where I live. Me: I support it Person: (enraged) you would want a blah blah next to you?!? Me: yes i support housing for humans Person: 😡 Me: bye (closes door)🚪
Good point @dbinyyc. This bylaw is a necessary but not sufficient solution. Controlling sprawl, developing along non-auto dominated nodes and corridors also a piece of the puzzle. Whether it is air or noise pollution cars are the main culprit in Calgary. This bylaw is necessary.
Good point @dbinyyc. This bylaw is a necessary but not sufficient solution. Controlling sprawl, developing along non-auto dominated nodes and corridors also a piece of the puzzle. Whether it is air or noise pollution cars are the main culprit in Calgary. This bylaw is necessary.
Michael from sunulta community association talks about why they supports RCG (Sunulta was rezone rcg for many years) and how it hasn’t caused a huge change and there are other city tools like heritage guidelines that can be used to help preserve context in neighbourhood.
Correct, we have said it would support, not solve. When we are being met with the argument that we shouldn't contemplate this because it won't solve the problem, I had to question how people were coming to that conclusion. #yyccc
Correct, we have said it would support, not solve. When we are being met with the argument that we shouldn't contemplate this because it won't solve the problem, I had to question how people were coming to that conclusion. #yyccc
So greatful for folks young and old who have come out to explain to council that this and future generations should have places to live. And that this is one of many important steps to get there.
So greatful for folks young and old who have come out to explain to council that this and future generations should have places to live. And that this is one of many important steps to get there.
🧵 This week I have been tuning in to the public hearing at city hall on RC-G rezoning and I have something to say. I am ashamed of my generation. With a few shining exceptions, speakers who had the good sense to be born before 1980 or so were a massive disappointment.👇🏼
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As young and old keep flocking and yakking to council about the infill home zoning proposal, here's my writeup from Week 1: cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
Everyone for rezoning is saying "This won't solve our problems on its own" and lots of people are interpreting that as "it won't work". The reality is, that it is will HELP affordability, especially in conjunction with the rest of the housing strategy. #yyccc #rezoning
@sassystuff @JennaACunninham I think there is pretty clear evidence to talk about how rezoning will *help* affordability. "Solving" affordability/the housing crisis is a different story. "Helping" = reasonable, much evidence to suggest. "Solving" = it's exaggeration, but not many people saying this.
You are a young professional family moving to Calgary specifically to buy a rowhouse style 3 bedroom home in which to raise your children. Would you be able to find one right now? Questionable. (nobody is eliminating a single home on a lot here folks)
You are a young professional family moving to Calgary specifically to buy a single family home in which to raise your children. Would you buy now without any predictability of future development of 12 unit r-cg on the lot next door? Questionable. Chaos. #yyccc
@le_brettski Why not? What is wrong with these types of homes?
@monikafurtado It is the "land use bylaw". Anyone has the opportunity to assemble lots at any point. Rezoning for housing doesn't change that. The bylaw is written to be flexible for a # of outcomes. Under R-CG, you could assemble 3 lots and put a single family house on it. Lots of options!
Single family home owner supports upzoning in Calgary! Thinks it will improve our city in numerous ways! Great for the health of our citizens! People will have places to live!
@yyc_bob @N88TE @noelkeough @yycplan One of the challenges is that Calgary, more than surrounding municipalities, has lots of room before hitting the cap of its license. That importantly doesn't mean that all that water will always be available of course, but has more 'cap space' than other munis.
@yyc_bob @N88TE @noelkeough @yycplan I believe I've heard that the city is engaged on some of that predictive modeling work currently, but can't remember the details. Important piece of growth is efficiency. We have substantial water loss per km of water pipe - better to minimize growth and repair existing infra.
Neighbours are out door knocking to try to stop the permit for a row house development on the block next to where I live. Me: I support it Person: (enraged) you would want a blah blah next to you?!? Me: yes i support housing for humans Person: 😡 Me: bye (closes door)🚪
@unasimple @N88TE @MarcusHWeber Yes, actually. They have very poor gas mileage. The phrase "they don't make things like they used to" is actually true. They're made better now.
Good point @dbinyyc. This bylaw is a necessary but not sufficient solution. Controlling sprawl, developing along non-auto dominated nodes and corridors also a piece of the puzzle. Whether it is air or noise pollution cars are the main culprit in Calgary. This bylaw is necessary.
An important consideration for all those advocating exclusively for the nodes and corridors approach to city growth. #yyccc
Michael from sunulta community association talks about why they supports RCG (Sunulta was rezone rcg for many years) and how it hasn’t caused a huge change and there are other city tools like heritage guidelines that can be used to help preserve context in neighbourhood.
@N88TE I blame the baby boomers and I am one. Sorry.
@N88TE @CalgaryOccupy …And they’re acting like 8-plexes are skyscrapers that will leave neighbouring houses in their shadow all day when they’re really about as tall as normal houses, they just have a larger footprint with a much smaller front yard and a backyard converted for parking. 🤷🏻♂️
@llpoole Lisa, you know this answer. It is one of 98 actions included in the Housing Strategy calgary.ca/communities/ho… Doing them all to makes the most impact. More homes in the market at variable prices and supply levels ease pressures on the Affordable/subsidized housing sector.
@llpoole @kourtpenner Would love for you to explain why adding duplexes to communities full of single family homes does anything other than help the crisis. 2 units are more than 1 unit. This is an incremental improvement, but a necessary one. Best time was 20 years ago, second best time is now.
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