Quote:
Originally Posted by YYCguys
As it appears today, it would seem that it's a node geared towards the travelling public, but as the plan suggests, it will be its own self contained bustling community. I am surprised to learn that Gasoline Alley is part of RD County and not RD City! Wonder if RD City has plans to annex it?
|
When RD County came up with the plan, the City of RD was not very happy about a proposed 8000 person community on their southern doorstep. In the mid 00's, the City needed to annex County land and it turned very sour, really quickly. In fact, during the negotiations for annexing, things got so bad that the City went ahead and tried to annex the entire property of Gasoline Alley. The process broke down big time and they went to mediation over it.
After that, they worked things out and things have been very favorable for both the City and County ever since.
So in short, the City is good with the residential proposed for Gas Alley, and the City did end up with annexed land that increased their land size by 50%.
But if you were to look back in the mid 00's, the relationship was very different between the two.
Lots of people do think that Gas Alley is a part of RD city but yah, it's been county property the whole time. And it's the County's golden egg (tax revenue). It's probably why they opposed a QEII realignment when AB Transportation wanted to route QEII around Gas Alley.
There's lots of history to learn about this area. haha.