Developer says Offsite Levy Bylaw unfairly skewed for City, calls for delay

One of the city’s largest developers is calling for a third-party audit of the proposed Offsite Levy Bylaw to determine if growth plans are unfairly benefitting City of Medicine Hat projects over those in the private sector.

Don Sandford, president of Lansdowne Equity Ventures, also says that bylaw needs to be delayed until such a study is done and council has a clear vision of how the bylaw in general will affect developers and lot prices.

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Developer ordered to meet requirements

A developer responsible for operating a waterworks system that pumps groundwater to 27 occupied lots in the County of Grande Prairie has been ordered to meet the Code of Practice requirements by Alberta Environment Sustainable Resource Development.

The Alberta government issued the enforcement order to Citizens Power & Gas Ltd. and Lloyd Blimke, who is the operator of the waterworks system that’s set up at Spruce Villa Estates subdivision, northeast of Sexsmith.

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High-end condo proposed for former Hole’s location

Parts of the original Hole’s greenhouse site may soon be rezoned for residential use, and the developer said he plans for more than just another condominium.

“We really want to find a way to make this development work in a sense that we can give back to the community,” said Dan Demers, Vice President of Boudreau Developments following a public consultation meeting Wednesday night at the Enjoy Centre.

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Sides still divided over redevelopment of Shaw-Nee Slopes Golf Course

CALGARY — The war of words may have ceased, but the two parties embroiled in a dispute over redeveloping the Shaw-Nee Slopes Golf Course remain far apart on the finer details.

“There remains a fair gulf between the community’s and the developer’s positions,” said Grant Galpin, the consultant representing the Shawnee-Evergreen community.

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Developer changes plans to save a piece of Calgary history from being bulldozed

The landfills are full of Calgary’s history — the bricks and mortar of a city that’s never halted development in the name of preservation.

In most cities, the loss of a century-old city block in the name of progress would be front page news — here in Calgary, tearing down history warrants a been-there, done-that shrug.

People may not like it, but they feel helpless.

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Council critic sells property city wanted to developer for $75.5 million

CALGARY — Renowned city hall gadfly Oscar Fech has sold a vast tract of northeast land to a private developer for $75.5 million.
As the perennial council critic and long-shot mayoral candidate himself often says: Can you believe it?
City officials can — barely. Because now, when they need part of that land for major road upgrades, they’ll likely face a more friendly negotiator than the man who always warned aldermen to use more “common sense.”
“We knew there wasn’t any possibility of dealing with him when we needed (the land),” Ald. Jim Stevenson said Monday.

Fort developer pitches land deal to city

FORT SASKATCHEWAN – A Fort Saskatchewan development company is interested in possibly selling a little land to the city in order to facilitate a light industrial project it has in mind for a four-hectare plot of land near 100 Avenue and 112 Street.

The company, 881454 Alberta Ltd. is proposing to sell the city land near Ross Creek, on the edge of the landowner’s property for the cost of conducting a survey and the registration of the sale, Clayton Kittlitz, director of city planning told council.

He explained while the property is in the industrial buffer zone between Sherritt Gordon and residences on the northeast end of the city it remains under a light industrial zoning designation.

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