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Originally Posted by suburbia
The Mayor explicitly requested the city staff to look for maintenance facility site options in the north, and they came back with there being nothing appropriate.
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I think that was just (at the time) private citizen Jyoti Gondek asking Twitter why Admin didn't look North for area for a facility, Mayor Nenshi spotting the question on his phone and asked it out loud.
https://twitter.com/JyotiGondek/stat...40320543825920
And after reviewing the video from the May 2017 meeting, starting at 8:46:22 Fabiola Macintyre actually confirms to the Mayor that it could fit at Aurora.
https://pub-calgary.escribemeetings....a&lang=English
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You wouldn't want to take up something like the prime Aurora Business Park site for something like a maintenance site
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Rough calculations would say that there's virtually no way even 70 acres of land that far away from the downtown core would generate municipal property taxes that would match the higher revenues and operational savings you would get from going NC first.
And I wonder how prime Aurora really is? Despite its good location, the City hasn't done much with it for over a decade. You can't even find the City's current Aurora Business Park page from a Google search. It's last update shows that it's in the "Revisit Aurora project in conjunction with Green Line LRT Program." phase which was supposed to be worked on 2016-2017 and its ASP link goes to Auburn Bay's.
It may be that by protecting Aurora for future development, it actually hampers it because there's not much interest until there's an actual date on when the Green Line gets there.
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Anyway, those were the reported facts. If you guys want to discuss about hypotheticals, so ahead, but it is really meaningless.
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If the Administration reports actually provided real facts, such as revenue, operating costs, and scoring between the NC and SE options and gave the City and Council a chance to debate it, as well as showing actual progress in the last 18 months on getting the NC line ready for Phase 2, we might not have people still questioning the decision.
And these discussion might not be so hypothetical if Phase 1 proposals comes back significantly over-budget and the City has to turn to Premier Kenney for more money.