Posted Mar 19, 2018, 3:59 PM
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Suburbs win again. No surprise here, you can't build new accomodations on urban land that has already has been built on without first tearing down what is there.
Despite efforts to curtail suburban residential growth in favour of long-established Calgary communities, a city draft report released this month forecasts an overwhelming concentration of Calgary’s population growth over the next five years will flock to the city’s fringes.
The draft report, titled Suburban Residential Growth 2018-2022 and authored by its planning, development and assessment department, predicts that 89 per cent of Calgary’s population growth during that period will be in the suburbs, compared with just 11 per cent in developed communities closer to the city centre.
The city expects to gain 76,700 new residents by 2022, with three sectors — the southeast (18,480 added residents), north (17,510) and northeast (15,750) — experiencing the most population growth.
These forecasts, if proven accurate, would continue a trend over the past five years. From 2013-17, 84 per cent Calgary’s population gain went to new suburban communities, according to the report. Last year, the city grew by more than 11,000 people, with new suburbs gaining about 16,000 residents and the remainder of the city losing 5,000.
http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news...-continue-to-sprawl-over-next-five-years
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