Due to city hall red tape, Calgary has gone from one of the best to one of the worst places in Canada to develop and build homes — boosting prices for new home buyers, said a local developer.
“The approval process has become an incredible challenge,” Lesley Conway, president of Hopewell Residential Communities, told the recent Calgary Real Estate Forum.
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EDMONTON— An Edmonton developer says his plan to build an alternative to another big-box strip mall on 104th Avenue has fallen through because of a conflict with the West LRT line.
“It’s a shame. It was a tremendous development for the city, I think, and now unfortunately it’s gone by the wayside,” said Stewart Gillespie, president of Chrisen Realty Corporation Ltd.
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A plan to put a drive-thru burger joint on a busy corner of Dunmore Road is temporarily on the back burner as members of the Municipal Planning Commission have asked the developer, business owner, residents and city planners to work out their differences.
The proposed take-out only restaurant was presented to the MPC at Wednesday’s meeting along with a petition arguing against the development and an unfavourable recommendation from city planners.
After a lengthy technical presentation by the developers, the MPC chair Graham Kelly stopped the discussion saying that the commission members had heard enough.
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