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Originally Posted by frinkprof

Anyway, my grandparents bought their house in Westgate in 1961, and lived there for over 40 years. My grandmother told me that once talks started heating up about developments going up on the west hill (Strathcona, etc.) that someone from their community association came around asking to sign a petition to halt these developments with arguments like there would be people peering down the hill into the backyards and windows of Westgate homes, traffic, noise, etc.

So...in the 70's it was from hills and today it's from C-train bridges. Calgarians have an unstoppable urge to peer into windows and backyards from loftier vantage points I guess!