Core services and repealing blanket rezoning should be key issues in civic election 

In 2023, Calgary city council passed one of the most divisive and sweeping planning changes in our history: blanket rezoning. With one vote, decades of established planning practices were overturned. For the first time, every single-family lot in the city could be redeveloped into multiplexes, rowhouses or townhouses — regardless of context or community input. 

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Opinion: North Calgary needs a real transit vision — BRT now, rail tomorrow 

For decades, North Calgary has been promised better transit. Every election brings talk of fairness and growth, yet every weekday morning, families in Panorama, Coventry, Livingston and Carrington sit in the same gridlock. The city’s largest infrastructure project, the Green Line LRT, won’t change that reality any time soon. 

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