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It’s interesting how Calgary city hall expects more from volunteer citizens than from paid staff.
Where it takes the planning department six months to say ‘no’ to a redevelopment plan for the folks whose Centre Street Dairy Queen restaurant burned down, for instance the city is giving volunteer citizens’ groups just four days to read through about 200 pages of documents on how to build better communities before they have to speak about their concerns.
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In my 38 years of involvement with the City of Calgary, I have never been more disappointed with city council than I was last week during the council hearing…
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It’s called The Guidebook for Great Communities but don’t let that cheery-sounding name of Orwellian doublespeak fool you. This is no guidebook; it’s a statutory policy document and it’s coming for your residential neighbourhood.
Long-time former city councillor Andre Chabot, who is running again to represent Ward 10, says the name of the document is misleading.
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“The name of this policy document makes me laugh every time I hear it,” says Chabot, “because the first thing that comes to mind when I read that is, ‘Great communities according to whom? ”
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