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Originally Posted by poopysheep
i live on 13 Ave and 10 street.. there are about 10 houses on this block left along with those brick walk ups and the Sturgess townhouse type things... a few rental 3 story type thing and one that was condo'ed... then like ugly bookmarks we have the Royal Oak and the ugly assed apartment on the other end...
the sad thing is that of the 10 houses 3 are businesses... 1 we call the party house and is screaming for a reno, 3 are suited and have renters ( which i'm cool with ) and the 3 remaining houses is us( we have 1 child ) and a family with 7 children and a single mom with a teenage daughter... we all know each other very well and have bbq's and sunday night dinners together... this is an amazing street... i'd love to see the other homes have families move in... the sturgess townhomes have about 4 kids in them as do those brick ones at the end of the block... the ugly apartment building is FULL of kids... i don't understand why families all move out to that suburban wasteland.. the beltline is capable of having wonderful neighborhoods...
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That's one of my fave streets in all of Calgary for sure. Having those homes all in a row show how all of the Beltline used to look about 80 years ago. I wonder if there could be some sort of heritage designation to the streetscape as opposed to individual houses. The houses individually may not get designation but all of them together should be preserved, I think, otherwise soon there won't be any houses left in the Beltline at all.
Anyway, there seems to be a misconception that inner city=bad place to raise kids. But I'll save that discussion for another time.