The proposal would make way for eight residential buildings including a trio of 16-storey towers along Crowchild Trail in Calgary's southwest.
WATCH: Calgary city council will soon make a decision on the former site of Viscount Bennett School as residents are concerned with what could be developed on the site. Adam MacVicar reports. Demolition is underway at the school site along Crowchild Trail, which has been shuttered since 2018.The developer has since applied to the City of Calgary to change the zoning on the site, to make way for several multi-residential buildings.
“We don’t want vehicles flying through residential roads,” she told Global News. “The lack of access is very concerning, it’s going to be a matter of time before somebody gets hit.” “It’s much denser than our current neighbourhood, and much denser than what’s appropriate for the area,” he told Global News Wednesday.According to a spokesperson for Minto Communities, “notable revisions” have been made to the proposal “based on community and city input.”show the building heights were scaled back from a maximum of 30 storeys in the original proposal, and the amount of anticipated units dropped from 2,503 to just 1,231 units in the updated plan.
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