As city prepares to approve more new communities, development industry defends building outward

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Ryan Andersen, lead organizer of the Calgary Alliance for the Common Good, said continually building outward has climate implications, and the city has already declared a climate emergency.Article content“It stretches our police services and stretches our fire services, and there’s no actual tax revenue until those communities are filled up,” Andersen said.

“We have more than enough communities that already have enough spaces to build housing for the next 20 years. So why are we creating these budgetary pressures for, you know, on services but also for all Calgarians?” he asked. “We need more people to be moving here, and we also need the economic activity that comes from building,” he said. “It’s not all residential, there’s commercial buildings and strip malls and retail that goes along with these.”

 

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