The city isn’t being above board in the way it is handling discussions about the future of Calgary’s only municipal golf course in the northeast, a former alderman says.
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Midtown development stalled
Tensions were high during a late-night council meeting Feb. 3, prompting an applicant to storm from council chambers after aldermen denied his request.
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CEO delivers plain and truthful talk
In a piece of her campaign literature, Druh Farrell says residents of Ward 7 subsidize new developments.
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Alderman pulls city planner into row over suburban development
CALGARY — In leaping to the defence of a home builders group sidelined by Mayor Naheed Nenshi for speaking out, an alderman is taking aim at the city’s top planner.
Ald. Diane Colley-Urquhart says Nenshi has the wrong end of the stick by punishing the Canadian Home Builders Association’s local chapter for comments its president made regarding a “suburban development freeze.”
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Aldermen debate paying cash for Event Centre
Another $15 million of Medicine Hat’s Community Capital Reserve Fund should be earmarked for the construction of a large spectator arena, the City’s Corporate Service Committee recommended on Wednesday.
The final approval rests with city council, and while the item is simply an accounting matter – no funds are being spent, or removed from their interest-bearing accounts – the overall issue of how the final cost of an Event Centre will be paid and the City’s debt situation was raised in the committee meeting.
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