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Originally Posted by beyeas
I will refrain from saying what Robin Williams was really describing though (if memory serves). LOL I think my all time favourite of his though was his description of golf. It is f'ing hilarious!
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YOu are on the right track about the first RW comment.
One of the changes which was passed as part of Plan It Calgary was the creation of higher density urban corridors - one of which has been Elbow Drive. It's a nice 4 lane street (no boulevard) that runs (for the most part) near or along the Elbow River. The road goes through some of Calgary's richest communities like Elboya, Britannia, etc.
These are areas where the idea of high density is a 3 storey walk up. Yet these are going to become higher density urban corridors with mixed use. I did a land use in this area for townhousing that could go up to 12m tall and they went nuts over 22 units (which could've been up to 33).
These nimbys don't get it and neither does the councilor. The fact that you start having taller buildings leads to changes of context. A storey leads to a 4 storey. 4 leads to 7. 7 leads to 10; 10 to 15 (etc.). Now the 10 to 15 is a bit of a stretch, might be more like 10 to 12 - but still you get the point.