Gondola developer would pay Edmonton $1.1 million annually for city land
Her colleague Coun. Michael Janz disagrees, saying if the project were needed, the city would create it as part of public transit.
About half of the project would go through Janz’s ward — something he said he heard a lot of criticism about during the election campaign.“I have many people who enjoy these views and enjoy the city of Edmonton and don’t want to see skyclutter,” he added.Edmonton council approves 1st step for gondola across North Saskatchewan River
“It’s a very important step but there’s certainly still a lot of work left to do,” Black said, assuring the public this is not a done deal. The city would have access to funds to completely change or take down any and all work that had been done and the developer would have to pay to remediate the river valley.“That is a very, very rare instrument. In fact, we’ve had to do a fair amount of work around being able to secure an underwriter for that,” explained Black, who also worked on the Rogers Place project.
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