City council to decide on Glenmore Landing redevelopment next week

Calgary metropolis councillors volition perceive a connection to kickstart the redevelopment of a southwest Calgary buying analyzable during a nationalist proceeding adjacent week.

The exertion seeks to alteration the zoning of 2 parcels of ‘surplus’ city-owned onshore astir Glenmore Landing; the 5.5 acres of onshore is being purchased by RioCan Management Inc., which owns the complex.

The determination would let RioCan to make up to six mixed-use towers connected the onshore to accommodate 1,165 caller residential units astatine afloat physique out.

However, the connection is facing important absorption from radical who unrecorded adjacent the complex.

“People are precise upset by it,” Lesley Farrar told Global News. “They’re acrophobic astir traffic, they’re acrophobic astir pedestrian safety; and everyone city-wide is acrophobic astir the reservoir.”

Residents successful the country stock successful the concerns astir the imaginable impacts, with concerns astir congestion and strain from postulation onto adjacent 90 Avenue S.W.

Officials with the Palliser-Bayview-Pumphill Community Association said the connection and its accompanying concerns person taken up “considerable time” with the unpaid organization.

“We’ve door-knocked connected hundreds of doors successful the community, and implicit 90 per cent of the radical were against this development,” said Kevin Taylor, the association’s director-at-large.

Residents told Global News the connection for the tract has changed importantly since it was archetypal submitted successful 2023, which present includes a  semipermanent “land usage and plan framework.”

That model shows a full of 15 towers varying betwixt 11 and 30 storeys passim the Glenmore Landing site.

Ward 11 Coun. Kourtney Penner, who represents the area, said that semipermanent program lone “contemplates” aboriginal redevelopment.

“There’s a guiding argumentation papers should those applications travel guardant successful the future, 15 positive years down the road,” Penner told Global News.

Any aboriginal proposals extracurricular the parcels up for statement adjacent week would necessitate a onshore usage redesignation application, aboriginal nationalist engagement and nationalist hearing, the metropolis told Global News.

According to Taylor, residents interest the surrounding neighbourhood won’t beryllium capable to accommodate specified an intensification successful the area.

“The biggest happening that we perceive present is safety, postulation and safety,” said Taylor, who noted different approved developments nearby. “It’s unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists.”

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The Calgary Planning Commission included respective conditions earlier the outline program tin beryllium approved, specified arsenic respective roadworthy upgrades to accommodate the accrued traffic.

In a statement, the metropolis said the exertion has been “revised respective times” since it was received to “respond to assemblage concerns and method studies.”

Those revisions besides see reductions successful the projected gathering heights.

“City medication reviewed respective method documents and supporting accusation to recognize and mitigate immoderate imaginable impacts redevelopment of these lands whitethorn person connected infrastructure and the environment,” the city’s connection said. “Review of these studies did not place immoderate concerns with the proposal.”

Penner said imaginable biology impacts are besides being considered, with the Glenmore Reservoir adjacent to the site.

“I’ve been explicit successful asking our h2o services squad if they’re acrophobic astir immoderate impacts to the prime of the drinking h2o and determination are none,” she said.

Both Farrar and the assemblage relation are encouraging residents successful the country to be the nationalist proceeding connected Tuesday to stock their feedback connected the proposal.

So far, metropolis medication has received 23 responses successful support, 9 responses of neutrality and 428 responses successful absorption to the projected development.

“My anticipation is that assembly is going to recognize the biology risks of this task and ballot against it,” Farrar said.

RioCan had not responded to Global News’ petition for remark astatine the clip of publishing.